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Aquavit and the New Scandinavian Cuisine
• Marcus Samuelsson
• FOOD
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A wonderfully illustrated cookbook from the renowned chef at Aquavit, New York's premier restaurant for haute Scandinavian cuisine.
(SCN40, $45.00)
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Arthur Miller's Adaptation of an Enemy of the People
• Arthur Miller
• Henrik Ibsen
• LITERATURE
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This classic drama portrays public-minded Dr. Stockman's crusade to save his town from its contaminated water supply.
(SCN26, $12.00)
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Baltic Light, Early Open-Air Painting in Denmark and North Germany
• Helmut Borsch-Supan
• Helmut Rudolf Leppien
• Catherine Johnston
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A beautifully illustrated work celebrating the plein air painting of the Baltic.
(DMK23, $70.00)
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The Baltic Revolution, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence
• Anatol Lieven
• HISTORY
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A Latvian correspondent for the London Times, Lieven weaves history, interviews and analysis into a vivid cultural portrait of post-Glasnost Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
(BLT02, $32.50)
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Berlitz Norwegian Phrase Book
• Inc. Berlitz International
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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(NOR67, $14.95)
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Blackwater
• Kerstin Ekman
• LITERATURE
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The suspicious death of an artist sends Police Constable Torsson skiing north to the remote Lapland village of Rakisjok to investigate, and there he encounters a frozen wall of resistance from the townspeople.
(SWE38, $16.00)
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Bradt City Guide Helsinki
• Nigel Wallis
• GUIDEBOOK
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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)
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Bradt Guide Spitsbergen
• Andreas Umbreit
• GUIDEBOOK
• HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
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This excellent introduction to Spitsbergen, Franz Josef Land and Jan Mayen Island includes an overview of history, wildlife and nature, color photographs and maps.
(NOR01, $23.95)
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The Cambridge Companion to Sibelius
• Daniel Grimley
• MUSIC
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An introduction to the life and music of Finland's greatest composer.
(SCN52, $32.99)
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Carl and Karin Larsson, Creators of Swedish Style
• Elisabet Stavenow-Hidemark
• Michael Snodin
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A delightful collection of art from the husband and wife team whose work created a new domestic ideal in 1890's Sweden. Contextual essays are accompanied by 191 color and 71 black and white illustrations and photos.
(SWE23, $29.95)
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Carl Larsson, The Autobiography of Sweden's Most Beloved Artist
• Carl Lasson
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Stories of Larsson's childhood and artistic life in his own words.
(SWE25, $17.00)
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Clara's Grand Tour, Travels With a Rhinoceros in Eighteenth-century Europe
• Glynis Ridley
• HISTORY
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The entertaining history of an Indian rhinoceros named Clara, who was brought to Europe in 1741 by a Dutch sea captain and toured for seventeen years, to the delight of several heads of state.
(FRN536, $12.00)
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The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales
• Hans Christian Andersen
• LITERATURE
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Classic tales by Copenhagen's most famous citizen.
(DMK01, $14.99)
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Copenhagen Map
• Borch Maps
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A handy laminated street map of Copenhagen in full color at a scale of 1:11,000.
(DMK14, $7.95)
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The Cross
• Sigrid Undset
• Tina Nunnally
• LITERATURE
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This is the third volume in Undset's trilogy of historical novels recreating a woman's life during the Middle Ages in devoutly Catholic Norway.
(NOR17, $14.00)
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Culture Smart! Finland
• Terttu Leney
• GUIDEBOOK
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A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture.
(SCN41, $9.95)
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Denmark Map
• Geocart
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A detailed map of Denmark with an inset of Copenhagen at a scale of 1:300,000.
(DMK07, $13.95)
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Denmark Map
• Freytag & Berndt
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1:400,000 scale map of Denmark
(SCN15, $12.95)
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Ecovillage Living, Restoring the Earth and Her People
• Hildur Jackson
• Karen Svensson
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A comprehensive primer on establishing ecovillages throughout the world.
(WLD41, $24.95)
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Edvard Grieg and Frederick Delius, The Correspondence
• Edvard Grieg
• Frederick Delius
• Lionel Carley
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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The correspondence of two friends and fellow composers.
(NOR18, $35.00)
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Edvard Munch
• Josef Paul Hodin
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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This is an illustrated biography of Norway's best known artist, with excellent reproductions of his work and plenty of historical information.
(NOR09, $18.95)
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Edvard Munch, Behind The Scream
• Sue Prideaux
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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An incisive intellectual and psychological portrait of the artist. Interspersed with excerpts from Munch's private diary, this is the first comprehensive English-language biography of Munch.
(NOR49, $38.00)
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Egil's Saga
• Bernard Scudder
• Svanhildur Oskarsdottir
• LITERATURE
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This chronicle of war and rivaly between ruling clans, written in the 13th century, blends history and legend. It's a vivid portrait of the Viking world. The action is set in 10th-century southern Scandinavia, the Baltic, Iceland and the North Sea.
(VIK06, $15.00)
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The Emigrants
• Vilhelm Moberg
• Gustaf Lannestock
• LITERATURE
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The first in a series of four novels about Swedish emigrants who flee poverty and oppression to make a new life in Minnesota.
(SWE14, $18.95)
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The Far Islands and Other Cold Places, Travel Essays of A Victorian Lady
• Elizabeth Taylor
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• OUT OF PRINT
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Here are the tales of a no-nonsense "Victorian lady," featuring her great love for remote islands with bad weather. She writes of the people, culture, traditions and natural history of Iceland, Norway, Scotland, and the Faroe Islands with grace and insight.
(ARC32, $16.95)
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Finland Map
• HEMA Maps
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A detailed map of all Finland at a scale of 1:750,000.
(SCN13, $12.95)
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Finnish Modern Design: Utopian Ideals and Everday Realities, 1930-97
• Nina Stritzler-Levine
• Marianne Aav
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A book on Finnish Modernism, featuring designs of the last seventy years.
(SCN24, $50.00)
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Five Plays
• August Strindberg
• LITERATURE
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A collection of the Swedish modernist's most-performed plays, including "Miss Julie", "The Father", "A Dream Play", "The Dance of Death" and "The Ghost Sonata".
(SWE20, $21.95)
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Fodor's Denmark
• Sar Sper
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical guide in the popular series, saturated with valuable information on accommodation, shopping, sights, and dining.
(DMK40, $18.95)
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Fodor's Norway
• Emmanue Alspaugh
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical guide in the popular series, saturated with valuable information on accommodation, shopping, sights, and dining.
(NOR65, $18.95)
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Fodor's Scandinavia
• Fodor's
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical, popular guide featuring full color photos, maps, and plenty of information on hotels, restaurants, attractions and activities.
(SCN46, $23.00)
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Fodor's Sweden
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical guide in the popular series, saturated with valuable information on accommodation, shopping, sights, and dining.
(SWE48, $18.95)
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Four Major Plays: A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, the Master Builder
• Henrik Ibsen
• Jens Arup
• LITERATURE
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Drawn from the Oxford Ibsen, this compact paperback highlights the playwright's four most celebrated works in excellent translations.
(NOR50, $9.95)
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Frommer's Norway
• Darwin Porter
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical travel guide featuring excellent annotated listings of what to do and where to eat and sleep. With one-color maps and suggested excursions.
(NOR64, $21.99)
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Frommer's Scandinavia
• Darwin Porter
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical travel guide featuring excellent annotated listings of what to do and where to eat and sleep. With one-color maps and suggested excursions.
(SCN54, $23.99)
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Gertrude and Claudius
• John Updike
• LITERATURE
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In Shakespeare's play, Elsinore and Medieval Denmark are evoked in a few expressive lines, a castle, a mood; but in Updike's novel, an atmospheric prelude to Hamlet, Elsinore and its inhabitants get the full historical-novel treatment.
(DMK19, $13.95)
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Gods and Myths of Northern Europe
• Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson
• RELIGION
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An classic survey of the Norse and Anglo-Saxon mythologies, gods and goddesses of pre-Christian Europe by a leading scholar of Norse and Anglo-Saxon religion and archaeology.
(SCN23, $15.00)
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The Gothic Enterprise, A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral
• Robert A. Scott
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An accessible overview of the medieval cathedral, its history, design and architecture with black-and-white photographs.
(EUR190, $17.95)
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
• William Shakespeare
• Barbara Mowat
• Paul Werstine
• LITERATURE
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This is a convenient pocket edition of Shakespeare's most celebrated play, part of the New Folger Library. Sure, it says more about Elizabethan England (and the human soul) than historical Denmark, but how could we resist?
(DMK08, $3.99)
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Hanna's Daughters
• Marianne Fredriksson
• LITERATURE
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A family saga spanning a swiftly changing century of Swedish history. Fredriksson reveals the female experience in 19th and 20th century Scandinavia.
(SWE27, $14.95)
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Hans Christian Andersen, The Life of a Storyteller
• Jackie Wullschlager
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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The acclaimed biography of Copenhagen's most famous denizen, who rose from his lot as a washerwoman's son to dine with princes and literary lions -- yet who died alone and unhappy.
(DMK13, $19.00)
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Helsinki Map
• Freytag & Berndt
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A foldout map of Helsinki, with an index at the detailed scale of 1:15,000.
(SCN36, $9.95)
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Here Is Where We Meet
• John Berger
• LITERATURE
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This novel weaves a portrait of several European countries through encounters with the dead, from the narrator's mother, whom he discovers on a park bench in Lisbon, to a childhood friend wandering a market in Krakow.
(EUR189, $14.00)
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The History of Danish Dreams
• Peter Hoeg
• LITERATURE
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Hoeg's first novel is a sprawling family saga spanning four generations and exploring the transition in Denmark from medieval society to modern nation.
(DMK05, $15.00)
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A History of the Vikings
• Gwyn Jones
• HISTORY
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Jones integrates history and archaeology in this classic portrait of the Vikings.
(VIK20, $18.99)
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Ibsen, The Complete Major Prose Plays
• Henrik Ibsen
• Rolf Fjelde
• LITERATURE
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Twelve masterful plays plus almost 100 pages of introduction and background.
(NOR48, $30.00)
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Insight Compact Guide Finland
• Insight Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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A brief guide to Helsinki and Finland with color photographs and excellent maps.
(SCN29, $8.95)
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Insight Guide Denmark
• Insight Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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An illustrated overview of the history, culture and attractions of Copenhagen and Denmark featuring hundreds of color photographs, excellent maps and outstanding short essays.
(DMK06, $23.95)
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Insight Guide Finland
• Insight Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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A profusely illustrated overview of Finland, featuring concise essays by well regarded authors on history, nature and culture, hundreds of photos and maps, and some limited practical information.
(SCN08, $23.95)
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Insight Guide Iceland
• Insight Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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This beautiful guide features wonderful photographs, maps and essays on history, attractions and culture by a team of experts.
(ICL04, $22.95)
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Insight Guide Sweden
• Doreen Taylor-Wilkie
• GUIDEBOOK
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A profusely illustrated overview of Sweden, featuring concise essays by well regarded authors on history, politics, nature and culture, hundreds of photos and maps, and some limited practical information.
(SWE12, $23.95)
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Isak Dinesen, The Life of a Storyteller
• Judith Thurman
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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The prize-winning biography of Dinesen, brimming with detail on her eventful life at home in Denmark and abroad.
(DMK17, $20.00)
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Jean Sibelius
• Karl Ekman
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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An up-to-date, well-researched biography of Sibelius, focused on the composer's life and personal history, rather than his music and its impact.
(SCN53, $29.95)
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The Kalevala
• Elias Lonrot
• LITERATURE
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A particularly strong translation of the national poem of Finland.
(SCN09, $24.50)
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King Harald's Saga
• Magnus Magnusson
• Paulsson Herman
• Snorri Sturlusson
• Hermann Palsson
• LITERATURE
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A classic biography of the last Viking warrior King Harald and an account of the 1066 conflict between Norway and England.
(NOR19, $12.00)
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Kitchen of Light: The New Scandinavian Cooking
• Andreas Viestad
• FOOD
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By a celebrated Norwegian food writer, this handsomely illusrtated compendium pairs recipes with an engaging history of Scandinavian cuisine.
(SCN51, $24.95)
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Knopf Mapguide, Stockholm
• Knopf Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical and handy passport-sized guide to the city, featuring fold-out maps.
(SWE37, $9.95)
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Lapland, A Natural History
• Derek Ratcliffe
• NATURAL HISTORY
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An authoritative, indispensable overview of the birds, plants, habitats and wildlife of the northern regions of Norway, Sweden, Finland and northwestern Russia.
(ARC182, $65.00)
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Lonely Planet Denmark
• Lonely Planet
• GUIDEBOOK
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A comprehensive, practical guide .
(DMK12, $21.99)
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Lonely Planet Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania
• Lonely Planet
• GUIDEBOOK
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An excellent practical guide to the region geared for independent travelers.
(BLT05, $25.99)
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Lonely Planet Finland
• Jennifer Brewer
• Marcus Lehtipuu
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical guide to Finland.
(SCN18, $22.99)
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Lonely Planet Norway
• Deanna Swaney
• GUIDEBOOK
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With maps, practical details and information on sightseeing.
(NOR25, $21.99)
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Mammals of Europe
• Priscilla Barrett
• David W. MacDonald
• FIELD GUIDE
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Published by Princeton, this is a field guide to land and marine mammals throughout Europe, both endemic and introduced. With more than 600 color illustrations of over 200 mammals.
(FG61, $34.95)
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Michelin Green Guide Scandinavia and Finland
• Michelin Travel Publications
• GUIDEBOOK
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A thorough guide to Scandinavia in the classic Michelin style.
(SCN10, $21.95)
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Moomin, The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip
• Tove Jansson
• LITERATURE
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The enchanting comic strip that introduced adult readers to Tove Jansson's wonderful world of Moomin, first in a proposed multi-volume series.
(SCN64, $19.95)
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Moose
• Valerius Geist
• Michael H. Francis
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A natural history and photographic portrait of the moose.
(BST56, $21.95)
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Mysteries
• Knut Hamsun
• Sverre Lyngstad
• LITERATURE
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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 is our favorite of Hamsun's many novels.
(NOR08, $15.00)
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Nationalism and the Nordic Imagination, Swedish Art of the 1890s
• Michelle Facos
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A handsome study of Swedish National Romanticism of the 1890's.
(SWE24, $65.00)
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The Norse Myths
• Kevin Crossley-Holland
• LITERATURE
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A classic collection of 32 tales of Nordic gods, goddesses and heroes. With an overview of the Norse world, cosmology and gods.
(SCN38, $17.00)
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Northern Europe Map
• Freytag & Berndt
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A colorful shaded relief map of Scandinavia and the Baltic States at a scale of 1:2,000,000. It shows the entire Baltic Sea region.
(EUR19, $11.95)
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Norway 1940
• Francois Kersaudy
• HISTORY
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A detailed account of the German invasion of Norway in 1940.
(NOR20, $26.95)
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Norway Map
• Freytag & Berndt
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A detailed map at a scale of 1:600,000.
(NOR05, $12.95)
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Norwegian, Start Speaking Today!
• Educational Services Corporation
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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A booklet and two cassette tapes make up this 90-minute crash course on Norwegian. This course follows the foreign service method, focusing on dialogues and useful sentences instead of single words.
(NOR23, $21.95)
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Old English and Its Closest Relatives, A Survey of the Earliest Germanic Languages
• Orrin Robinson
• HISTORY
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A survey of the family tree of English and its cultural and linguistic roots in Old Norse and other northern European languages.
(VIK21, $26.95)
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On Tycho's Island
• John Robert Christianson
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) was an outlandish figure among early European astronomers, what with his prosthetic golden nose, his close relations with the Danish monarch and his private laboratory island where he observed the heavens. This scholarly work brings to life the man, his island and his age.
(DMK18, $27.99)
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Orkneyinga Saga, The History of the Earls of Orkney
• Hermann Palssom
• Paul Edwards
• LITERATURE
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A fusion of myth and legend, circa A.D. 1200, by an unnamed Icelandic author. The medieval chronicle has its center of action among the Orkney Islands, describing their conquest by Norwegian kings during the Viking expansion of the ninth century.
(VIK07, $15.00)
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Oslo/Bergen Map
• ITMB
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A walking map of Oslo and Bergen at a scale of 1:10,000.
(NOR44, $8.95)
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The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings
• Peter Sawyer
• HISTORY
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An insightful overview of the Viking Age in Norway and abroad, illustrated throughout and featuring essays by 12 experts.
(VIK18, $27.99)
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Peer Gynt
• Henrik Ibsen
• LITERATURE
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The last of Ibsen's verse plays, based on the Norwegian folk hero.
(NOR13, $12.95)
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The Poetic Edda
• Carolyne Larrington
• LITERATURE
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The Norse-Icelandic poems of mythological deities are translated into modern English.
(SCN25, $14.95)
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The Promise of America, A History of the Norwegian-American People
• Odd S. Lovoll
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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An account of Norwegian migration to North America and the Norwegians contribution to their adopted land. With 227 black-and-white photos.
(NOR47, $24.95)
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Rick Steves' French, Italian & German Phrase Book & Dictionary
• Rick Steves
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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A compact phrase book for travelers, organized thematically and with a brief dictionary.
(EUR142, $9.95)
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Rough Guide Norway
• Jules Brown
• GUIDEBOOK
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This compact guide includes an excellent historical and cultural overview of Norway, with special attention to its legends and myths. It's otherwise an opinionated, thorough travel guide with region-by-region descriptions.
(NOR07, $20.99)
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Rough Guide Scandinavia
• Rough Guide
• GUIDEBOOK
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A comprehensive, opinioned guide to the history, culture and attractions of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland. Part of a popular British series, it has an excellent balance of practical and cultural information.
(SCN17, $24.99)
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The Royal Physician's Visit
• Per Olov Enquist
• LITERATURE
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Swedish novelist Enquist fleshes out a footnote in Danish history in this story of the Enlightenment-era Danish court, the mad king Christian VII, the ambitious royal doctor and the passionate young queen.
(DMK21, $14.00)
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Running with Reindeer, Encounters in Russian Lapland
• Roger Took
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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An absorbing account of travels among the reindeer herding Saami in 1990s Russia. Took captures the wide landscapes, people and political instability of the wilderness surrounding Murmansk.
(RUS221, $17.95)
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The Sami People, Traditions in Transition
• Veli-Pekka Lehtola
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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Lehtola traces the history, traditions, political challenges, arts and culture of the reindeer-herding Sami in this incisive portrait.
(SCN42, $27.95)
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Say it in Finnish
• Aili Flint
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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A palm-size pocket guide to common Finnish phrases and expressions for travelers, divided by topic and featuring a useful index.
(SCN43, $5.95)
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Scandinavia Wall Map
• National Geographic
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A colorful wall map of Scandinavia, including Iceland.
(SCN28, $14.99)
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Seven Viking Romances
• Hermann Palssom
• Paul Edwards
• ANTHOLOGY
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Entertaining sagas telling of Viking kings, adventurers and gods.
(VIK04, $15.00)
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The Shetland Bus, A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival and Adventure
• David Howarth
• HISTORY
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The little-known story of a fleet of fishing boats that regularly journeyed across treacherous waters from the Shetland Islands to Norway, to bring relief and fortifications to Norwegians under Nazi attack.
(NOR26, $16.95)
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Smilla's Sense of Snow
• Peter Hoeg
• LITERATURE
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Set in Denmark and Greenland and aboard a secret ship, this page-turner includes an excellent portrait of modern day Copenhagen in its first half.
(DMK03, $15.00)
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Southern Scandinavia Map
• Kummerly & Frey Maps
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A colorful road map of Scandinavia.
(SCN07, $12.95)
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The Spectator Bird
• Wallace Stegner
• LITERATURE
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An American literary agent goes to Denmark and meets Karen Blixen in this novel by Wallace Stegner. Winner of the National Book Award.
(DMK16, $15.00)
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Stockholm Pocket Guide
• Berlitz Pocket Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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As advertised, this brief, illustrated guide to the city fits easily into a shirt pocket. It's a brief guide covering what to see and do in Stockholm -- with a convenient map of the city center.
(SWE01, $13.50)
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Stockholm, City of My Dreams
• Pers Anders Fogelstrom
• LITERATURE
• HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
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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, $18.95)
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The Svalbard Passage
• Thomas Kirkwood
• Geir Finne
• LITERATURE
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A Cold War thriller lush in the details of its Norwegian setting. The novel opens with a description and map of the Arctic archipelago.
(NOR31, $15.95)
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Sweden Map
• Freytag & Berndt
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A colorful map of Sweden at a scale of 1:800,000.
(SWE06, $12.95)
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Sweden Regional Map, East Svealand
• Swedish Government Maps
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A regional map including Stockholm and surroundings at a scale of 1:250,000
(SWE13, $16.95)
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Swedish Folktales and Legends
• Lane Thygesen Blecher
• George Blecher
• LITERATURE
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Illustrated with woodcuts and drawings, this representative sampling of tales from centuries gone by ranges from the ribald to the romantic, from the rustic to the mystical.
(SWE05, $18.95)
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A Swedish Kitchen: Recipes and Reminiscences
• Judith Pierce Rosenberg
• FOOD
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A culinary memoir from an American who became so enamored of Sweden and its food that she made it her second home. Rosenberg presents 80 recipes collected from 25 years of travels throughout the country.
(SWE34, $24.95)
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The Thirty Years' War
• Geoffrey Parker
• HISTORY
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A scholarly history of the major European conflict of the 17th century. Among the outcomes were the annexation of Alsace by France, the annexation of Pomerania by Sweden and the legalization of Calvinism in Germany.
(EUR115, $39.95)
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Time Out Copenhagen
• Michael Booth
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical, hip guide by the British publisher, noted for its extensive listings. Features extensive listings for museums, historical sites, shopping, and eating out in Copenhagen, and also provides some basic background on the city's culture and history.
(DMK26, $19.95)
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Travelers' Tales, A Woman's Europe
• Marybeth Bond
• Mary Morris
• ANTHOLOGY
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Visit Europe through the eyes of women writers, including Frances Mayes and Jan Morris.
(EUR160, $17.95)
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Two Golden Ages, Masterpieces of Dutch and Danish Painting
• Lene Bogh Ronberg
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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This exhibition catalogue traces the influences of the Dutch masters on later Danish artists.
(DMK24, $50.00)
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The Vikings, A Very Short Introduction
• Julian D. Richards
• HISTORY
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This slim volume is a stimulating, concise introduction to the Vikings.
(VIK24, $14.99)
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Vinland Sagas, Norse Discovery of America
• Magnus Magnusson
• EXPLORATION
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These Icelandic sagas, as edited by the great Magnus Magnusson, tell the compelling story of the Norse discovery of America five centuries before the arrival of Christopher Columbus.
(VIK03, $13.00)
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The Wife
• Sigrid Undset
• Tina Nunnally
• LITERATURE
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This is the second volume in Undset's trilogy of historical novels recreating a woman's life during the Middle Ages in devoutly Catholic Norway.
(NOR16, $15.00)
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Winter's Tales
• Isak Dinesen
• LITERATURE
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A collection of 11 haunting short stories by the Danish writer most famous as Karen Blixen. With their Nordic settings, the Gothic tales draw upon the folk tradition and myths of Denmark. Originally published in 1942.
(DMK25, $13.95)
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A Woman in Amber
• Agate Nesaule
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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In this American Book Award-winning memoir, Nesaule recounts the horrors she witnessed and experienced as a young girl during World War II in Latvia. A gripping testimony of survival.
(RUS30, $15.00)
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World of the Vikings
• Richard Hall
• ARCHAEOLOGY
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A readable overview of Viking civilization and history, with hundreds of photographs and illustrations of Viking life, art and archaeological sites.
(VIK27, $34.95)
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