“Iceland offers connections to the past found almost nowhere else,” says National Geographic fellow Jonathan Tourtellot, who has been to the country six times. “Just tell your children that ...

This story appears in the May 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine ... They were telling me the story of Iceland’s landscape, and if you counted the smoked lamb, all four main actors ...

Iceland is renowned for its incredible natural beauty, so when I had the opportunity to sail nearly 1,200 nautical miles around the island on a National Geographic Lindblad cruise ship ...