Added to my growing Icelandic book collection with this travelogue from 1930, purchased from Topsham Books. It's written and illustrated by Olive Murray Chapman, who sailed to the island and completed a trip across it, and into the interior and around the coast at a time when there were far fewer visitors than now and visitors travelled by horseback and stayed in various residents' houses eating what little food was available - bread and milk and eggs in many cases.
There are some places which will have changed little in that time - although with more fences and signage perhaps....
The path down into Almannagja is recognisable in this illustration above.
The author also wrote a separate book about her travels 'Across Lapland: with Sledge and Reindeer', and also travelled through Cyprus. She was the widow of a pilot.
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