Published: 15 Mar 2022 5th edition 512 pages / 16 colour / 30 maps A new,
thoroughly updated edition of Bradt's Iceland, recipient of the Lowell Thomas
Award (the highest travel writing award available in the United States)
providing more context for individual places than any other guidebook, plus
honest, investigative hotel and restaurant reviews that hide nothing. Based on
20 years of personal and business travel, exploration and adventure all around
the country, Bradt's Iceland is in-depth, well-researched and comprehensive,
featuring a year-round approach to travelling in Iceland in line with the
development of the local tourist industry to offer attractions beyond the normal
summer season. This latest edition covers the growing tourist infrastructure:
the new, fully-paved road system, better routes through the interior, a wave of
new hotels and resorts, more tour companies with more tour options, new
adventure activities, plus day tours from port city destinations and tips for
those travellers arriving by cruise ship. Natural history and wildlife
experiences are featured prominently along with a focus on the outdoors and help
in accessing even the most difficult corners of Iceland. Also featured is the
most in-depth political and economic analysis offered by any guidebook since the
turmoil of 2008. And, even though Iceland is notoriously expensive, there are
now a lot more options for travellers, including more hostels, campsites, and
budget airlines. This new edition also includes a foreword by the newly elected
President of Iceland, Guđni Th. Jóhannesson. Containing information on remote
offshore islands, the uninhabited interior and Reykjavik's bustling music and
art scene, this remains the definitive guide. Replete with lava flows, colossal
glaciers and thundering waterfalls, Iceland is one of Europe's most unusual
destinations. Pure, wild, and still in the midst of its own creation, it stands
apart from the rest of Europe. With its moody volcanoes and massive ice caps,
Iceland has caught the world's curiosity like never before. Iceland offers
visitors a chance to get close and personal with its immense nature and vivid
wildlife, to experience the live volcanoes and ancient glaciers, and gape at
roaring waterfalls and the drifts of obsidian sand in the country's bleak desert
interior. Andrew Evans has been travelling in Iceland for over 20 years. As a
contributor to National Geographic, and a frequent host for tours to Iceland, he
explores some of the remotest corners of the country regularly. He has studied
the Icelandic language, history, and biology and continues to lecture about the
country to high-end tour groups, as well as the National Geographic Society and
Smithsonian Institution. His guide is exhaustive, allowing travellers to make
informed decisions, to go anywhere and explore anything.