# Iceland: Horseback tours in saga land

Author: Russell, W. S. C. (Waterman Spaulding Chapman), 1871-1918

Genre: Category: Travel Writing

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57659

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Iceland%3A+Horseback+tours+in+saga+land+Russell&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Historically, Iceland is unique. Assyria, Egypt, Greece, Italy, Mexico,—each has a prehistoric period of human habitation, when man loved and hated, and competed with the brutes for existence. He fashioned his instruments from stone and made self-preservation his first and only law. A sturdy race, little removed from the highest brutes, filled with animal vigor and endowed with brute passions, held all known lands in prehistoric time. Step by step, cycle upon cycle, brute force submitted to reason; culture and refinement, mental acquisition and spiritual attainment characterized an evolutionary race of human beings in which each developing cycle was founded upon the decadence of the prehi...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/iceland-horseback-tours-in-saga-land-57659/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/iceland-horseback-tours-in-saga-land-57659/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/iceland-horseback-tours-in-saga-land-57659/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/iceland-horseback-tours-in-saga-land-57659/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/iceland-horseback-tours-in-saga-land-57659/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/iceland-horseback-tours-in-saga-land-57659/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/iceland-horseback-tours-in-saga-land-57659/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/iceland-horseback-tours-in-saga-land-57659/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/iceland-horseback-tours-in-saga-land-57659/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/iceland-horseback-tours-in-saga-land-57659/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/iceland-horseback-tours-in-saga-land-57659/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/iceland-horseback-tours-in-saga-land-57659/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/iceland-horseback-tours-in-saga-land-57659/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/iceland-horseback-tours-in-saga-land-57659/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter VII was written, that I learned a most interesting thing about](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/iceland-horseback-tours-in-saga-land-57659/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/iceland-horseback-tours-in-saga-land-57659/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/iceland-horseback-tours-in-saga-land-57659/chapters/3/index.md)