title: The Rough Guide to Iceland
author:  David Leffman 
description: <b>David Leffman</b> is a travel writer and photographer. Heis the author of<i>Top 10 Iceland</i> and <i>Eyewitness China</i> for DK, and has written guidebooks to Iceland, Australia, Indonesia, China, and Hong Kong for Rough Guides. He has also led specialist guided tours to China.<br /><br /><b>James Proctor </b>has been with Rough Guides since 1995, and is the company's original Nanook of the North. Coauthor of the Rough Guides to Sweden, Iceland, and Finland, he has also written the only English-language guides to the Faroe Islands and Lapland. One of his more obscure talents is speaking fluent Swedishsomething that never fails to impress and bemuse Swedes (and most other people) he meets. Having lived and worked in Stockholm during the mid-1990s as the BBC's Scandinavia correspondent, James now returns to Sweden at frequent intervals to commune with nature at his log cabin deep in the forest.
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  A Journey to the Interior of the Earth
  
  
    
    
  PREFACE  
    
  CHAPTER I. THE PROFESSOR AND HIS FAMILY  
    
  CHAPTER II. A MYSTERY TO BE SOLVED AT ANY PRICE  
    
  CHAPTER III. THE RUNIC WRITING EXERCISES THE
  
  
  PROFESSOR  
    
  CHAPTER IV. THE ENEMY TO BE STARVED INTO SUBMISSION
  
  
    
    
  CHAPTER V. FAMINE, THEN VICTORY, FOLLOWED BY DISMAY
  
  
    
    
  CHAPTER VI. EXCITING DISCUSSIONS ABOUT AN
  
  
  UNPARALLELED ENTERPRISE  
    
  CHAPTER VII. A WOMAN'S COURAGE  
    
  CHAPTER VIII. SERIOUS PREPARATIONS FOR VERTICAL
  
  
  DESCENT  
    
  CHAPTER IX. ICELAND! BUT WHAT NEXT?  
    
  CHAPTER X. INTERESTING CONVERSATIONS WITH
  
  
  ICELANDIC SAVANTS  
    
  CHAPTER XI. A GUIDE FOUND TO THE CENTRE OF THE
  
  
  EARTH  
    
  CHAPTER XII. A BARREN LAND  
    
  CHAPTER XIII. HOSPITALITY UNDER THE ARCTIC CIRCLE
  
  
    
    
  CHAPTER XIV. BUT ARCTICS CAN BE INHOSPITABLE, TOO
  
  
    
    
  CHAPTER XV. SNAEFELL AT LAST  
    
  CHAPTER XVI. BOLDLY DOWN THE CRATER  
    
  CHAPTER XVII. VERTICAL DESCENT  
    
  CHAPTER XVIII. THE WONDE