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Eyewitness Guide Norway

Eyewitness Guide Norway

by Eyewitness Guides

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2012
  • PAPER
  • 304 PAGES
  • COMING IN MAY

This handsome, illustrated guide covers nature, culture, history and attractions. (NOR29, $25.00)

Lonely Planet Stockholm Encounter

Lonely Planet Stockholm Encounter

by Cristian Bonetto

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 192 PAGES

This lively shirt pocket guide to the city, jammed with personal recommendations and photographs, also includes a pull-out map. (SWE43, $12.99)

Lonely Planet Copenhagen Encounter

Lonely Planet Copenhagen Encounter

by Lonely Planet Publications

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 192 PAGES

This lively shirt pocket guide to the city is jammed with personal recommendations, photographs and a pull-out map. (DMK35, $12.99)

A History of Scandinavia: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland

A History of Scandinavia: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland

by T.K Derry

  • HISTORY
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 447 PAGES

Scandinavia from prehistory to the present with chapters on the Viking and Lutheran kingdoms, medieval times, monarchies, the World Wars and modern period, emphasizing the common cultural, political and social backgrounds. (SCN03, $25.00)

Norwegian Folk Tales

Norwegian Folk Tales

by Peter Asbjornsen

  • ANTHOLOGY
  • 1982
  • PAPER
  • 188 PAGES

This rich collection of stories, interpreted by a leading scholar on ancient traditions and tales, will delight both adults and children. (NOR06, $15.95)

Scandinavia Map

Scandinavia Map

by Michelin

  • 2012
  • MAP

With an index, area maps and table of driving times and distances, this handy, frequently updated map covers all of Scandinavia, including Finland, at a scale of 1:1.5 million on one side of the sheet. (SCN16, $12.95)

 
Helsinki Map

Helsinki Map


by Freytag & Berndt

  • MAP

A foldout map of Helsinki, with an index at the detailed scale of 1:15,000. (SCN36, $12.95)

Bradt City Guide Helsinki

Bradt City Guide Helsinki


by Nigel Wallis

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 300 PAGES

This convenient pocket guide features an overview of the history and culture of Helsinki along with a few color photographs and maps. (SCN47, $13.99)

Culture Smart! Denmark

Culture Smart! Denmark


by Mark Salmon

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 168 PAGES

A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture. (DMK30, $9.95)

Culture Smart! Norway

Culture Smart! Norway


by Linda March

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 168 PAGES
  • CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE
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A concise, no-nonsense guide to local customs, etiquette and culture with a short overview of the land and people along with practical travel advice. (NOR43, $9.95)

Culture Smart! Sweden

Culture Smart! Sweden


by Charlotte J. DeWitt

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 168 PAGES

This concise no-nonsense guide to local customs, etiquette and culture includes a short overview of the land and people along with practical travel advice. (SWE45, $9.95)

Helsinki, A Cultural and Literary History

Helsinki, A Cultural and Literary History


by Neil Kent

  • HISTORY
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 247 PAGES

A literary guide to Helsinki, its history and culture, organized into three sections: city of architects and engineers; city of music and arts; and city of hospitality. With maps and black-and-white illustrations. (SCN33, $15.00)

The Vikings, Lords of the Seas

The Vikings, Lords of the Seas


by Yves Cohat

  • HISTORY
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 175 PAGES

An indispensable reference that fits in your pocket, this slim volume is packed with maps, archival photographs and illustrations. It tells of the Norse homeland, discoveries and settlements, and features a useful chronology and excerpts from the Viking Sagas. Part of the "Discoveries" series. (VIK01, $15.95)

Vikings, The North Atlantic Saga

Vikings, The North Atlantic Saga


by William Fitzhugh | Elisabeth Ward

  • HISTORY
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 432 PAGES

An extensively illustrated volume of Viking culture, history and exploration that focuses especially on voyages to North America. Published in conjunction with a Smithsonian exhibit, it features essays and 400 color photographs. (VIK11, $34.95)

We Die Alone

We Die Alone


by David Howarth

  • EXPLORATION
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 208 PAGES

Howarth's riveting account of courage, determination and valor in Nazi-occupied Norway follows Jan Baalrud's extraordinary escape by ski across the Lyngen Alps. (NOR14, $16.95)

Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark


by Mary Wollstonecraft | William Godwin

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 129 PAGES

Groundbreaking feminist Wollstonecraft records her observations of a late 18th-century journey through Scandinavia in this small masterpiece, rich in detali of people and place. (SCN04, $16.95)

Growth of the Soil

Growth of the Soil


by Knut Hamsun

  • LITERATURE
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 352 PAGES

The epic tale of a homesteader in the mountainous Norwegian interior, which helped win Hamsun a Nobel Prize in 1920. (NOR36, $15.00)

Montecore, The Silence of the Tiger


by Jonas Hassen Khemiri

  • LITERATURE
  • 2011
  • HARD COVER
  • 311 PAGES

Khemiri weaves a resonant tale of the modern immigrant experience in Sweden, and how undercurrents of racism and prejudice can estrange a father and son. (SWE78, $26.95)

Mysteries

Mysteries


by Knut Hamsun | Sverre Lyngstad

  • LITERATURE
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 352 PAGES

An odd character settles in a small Norwegian village and charms the locals. First published in 1890, this book is an insightful look at life in Norway and our favorite of Hamsun's many novels. (NOR08, $16.00)

Nordic Gods and Heroes

Nordic Gods and Heroes


by Padraic Colum | Willy Pogany

  • LITERATURE
  • 1996
  • PAPER
  • 292 PAGES

Column's classic retelling of the dramatic tales of the Norse gods and goddesses, originally published in 1928. With 40 illustrations. (SCN39, $10.95)

Out Stealing Horses

Out Stealing Horses


by Per Petterson

  • LITERATURE
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 258 PAGES

In this luminous novel of memory, childhood and loss in rural Norway, elderly narrator Trond Sander looks back on his life and the chain of events that began one fateful summer day in 1948. (NOR66, $15.00)

Smilla's Sense of Snow

Smilla's Sense of Snow


by Peter Hoeg

  • LITERATURE
  • 2012
  • PAPER
  • 448 PAGES

Could it really have been all that long ago that Peter Hoeg's gripping second novel made such a splash? Set in Denmark and Greenland and aboard a secret ship, this page-turner, out in a 20th anniversary edition, includes an excellent portrait of modern day Copenhagen. Beneath its eery surface, the novel wrestles with racism and the tangled relations between Denmark and Greenland. (DMK03, $17.00)

Stockholm, City of My Dreams

Stockholm, City of My Dreams


by Pers Anders Fogelstrom

  • LITERATURE
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 332 PAGES
  • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE

Young Henning Nilsson arrives in Stockholm on the eve of the Industrial Revolution, eager for success, love and a fully experienced life, in this Swedish classic of historical realist fiction, happily now available in an English translation. (SWE22, $21.95)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo


by Stieg Larsson

  • MYSTERY
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 480 PAGES

Larsson combines murder mystery, family saga, love story and financial intrigue into a complex and atmospheric novel set in Stockholm and the snowy landscapes of northern Sweden. (SWE54, $15.95)

The Long Ships

The Long Ships


by Frans Gunnar Bengtsson

  • LITERATURE
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 520 PAGES

Captured by Vikings, made to take his place at the oars of a dragon-prowed war ship, a convert to Christianity and major player in the defeat of the Kings of England, Bengtsson's boy-hero Red Om has a grand time roaring and rampaging across 10th-century Europe in this classic saga, originally published in 1943, and a perennial favorite in the author's native Sweden. (VIK33, $17.95)

The Saga of the Volsungs

The Saga of the Volsungs


by Jesse Byock

  • LITERATURE
  • 2012
  • PAPER
  • 145 PAGES

ull of traditional lore, including runic knowledge, jealousies of princes, betrayals, unrequited love, the vengeance of a Barbarian queen, the greed of Attila the Hun, and the mythic deeds of a dragon-slayer, this is the Scandinavian version of the German Niebelungenlied used by Wagner for his opera. (SCN05, $19.95)

The Stories of Hans Christian Andersen

The Stories of Hans Christian Andersen


by Hans Christian Andersen | Diana Crone Frank | Jeffrey Frank

  • LITERATURE
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 293 PAGES
  • FAMILY

A newly refurbished collection of twenty-two tales, adroitly retranslated by Diana and Jeffrey Frank and with the original illustrations. (DMK27, $23.95)

Birds of Europe

Birds of Europe


by Lars Svensson

  • FIELD GUIDE
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 416 PAGES
  • FAVORITE

Featuring 3,500 glorious paintings by Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterstrom, the second revised edition of this exquisite guide has been brought up to date with revised text and maps. (FG47, $29.95)

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