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The Arctic, A Guide to Coastal Wildlife  •  Tony Soper  •  Dan Powell   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A compact guide to coastal marine mammals and seabirds of the Circumpolar North, featuring handsome watercolor illustrations and lively text. (ARC85, $21.95)
 
 
Arthur Miller's Adaptation of an Enemy of the People  •  Arthur Miller  •  Henrik Ibsen   • LITERATURE  •  This classic drama portrays public-minded Dr. Stockman's crusade to save his town from its contaminated water supply. (SCN26, $12.00)
 
 
Birds of Britain & Europe  •  Hermann Heinzel  •  Richard Fitter  •  John Parslow   • FIELD GUIDE • OUT OF PRINT  •  This masterfully organized Collins Pocket Guide, featuring 3,000 color illustrations covers the birds of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. (EUR49, $27.50)
 
 
Bradt Guide Spitsbergen  •  Andreas Umbreit   • GUIDEBOOK  •  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, $26.99)
 
 
Clara's Grand Tour, Travels With a Rhinoceros in Eighteenth-century Europe  •  Glynis Ridley   • HISTORY  •  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)
 
 
The Cross  •  Sigrid Undset  •  Tina Nunnally   • LITERATURE  •  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, $15.00)
 
 
Culture Smart! Finland  •  Terttu Leney   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture. (SCN41, $9.95)
 
 
Edvard Grieg and Frederick Delius, The Correspondence  •  Edvard Grieg  •  Frederick Delius  •  Lionel Carley   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  The correspondence of two friends and fellow composers. (NOR18, $35.00)
 
 
Egil's Saga  •  Bernard Scudder  •  Svanhildur Oskarsdottir   • LITERATURE  •  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)
 
 
Eyewitness Guide Norway  •   Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This handsome, illustrated guide covers the nature, culture, history and attractions of Norway. We also carry Eyewitness guides to Sweden (SWE32), Stockholm (SWE18) and Denmark (DMK28). (NOR29, $25.00)
 
 
Gods and Myths of Northern Europe  •  Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson   • RELIGION  •  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)
 
 
The Gothic Enterprise, A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral  •  Robert A. Scott   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  An accessible overview of the medieval cathedral, its history, design and architecture with black-and-white photographs. (EUR190, $19.95)
 
 
Here Is Where We Meet  •  John Berger   • LITERATURE  •  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, $15.00)
 
 
An Illustrated History of the First World War  •  John Keegan   • HISTORY • OUT OF PRINT  •  An illustrated edition of Keegan's outstanding history of the Great War (WAR16, $50.00)
 
 
King Harald's Saga  •  Magnus Magnusson  •  Paulsson Herman  •  Snorri Sturlusson  •  Hermann Palsson   • LITERATURE  •  A classic biography of the last Viking warrior King Harald and an account of the 1066 conflict between Norway and England. (NOR19, $13.00)
 
 
Kon-Tiki, Across the Pacific by Raft  •  Thor Heyerdahl  •  F. H. Lyon   • EXPLORATION  •  The hugely popular account of a daring 1947 voyage sailing along the Humboldt and Equatorial currents from Peru to Tahiti. Apart from the sheer adventure, Heyerdahl wanted to show the world that Polynesians could have settled the region. With photographs. (PAC10, $12.95)
 
 
Lapland, A Natural History  •  Derek Ratcliffe   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  An authoritative, indispensable overview of the birds, plants, habitats and wildlife of the northern regions of Norway, Sweden, Finland and northwestern Russia. (ARC182, $70.00)
 
 
Lonely Planet Norway  •  Deanna Swaney   • GUIDEBOOK  •  With maps, practical details and information on sightseeing. (NOR25, $21.99)
 
 
Mammals of Europe  •  Priscilla Barrett  •  David W. MacDonald   • FIELD GUIDE  •  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, $38.50)
 
 
Michelin Green Guide Scandinavia and Finland  •   Michelin Travel Publications   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A thorough guide to Scandinavia in the classic Michelin style. (SCN10, $21.95)
 
 
Norway 1940  •  Francois Kersaudy   • HISTORY  •  A detailed account of the German invasion of Norway in 1940. (NOR20, $26.95)
 
 
Orkneyinga Saga, The History of the Earls of Orkney  •  Hermann Palssom  •  Paul Edwards   • LITERATURE  •  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)
 
 
Peer Gynt  •  Henrik Ibsen   • LITERATURE  •  The last of Ibsen's verse plays, based on the Norwegian folk hero. (NOR13, $12.95)
 
 
Pilgrimages, The Great Adventure of the Middle Ages  •  John Ure   • HISTORY  •  Former British Ambassador Sir John Ure relates the stories of medieval Christian pilgrimage during the 500 years of its peak between 1066 and 1536. (EUR202, $15.95)
 
 
The Poetic Edda  •  Carolyne Larrington   • LITERATURE  •  The Norse-Icelandic poems of mythological deities are translated into modern English. (SCN25, $14.95)
 
 
Rough Guide Norway  •  Jules Brown   • GUIDEBOOK  •  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, $22.99)
 
 
The Royal Physician's Visit  •  Per Olov Enquist   • LITERATURE  •  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)
 
 
The Sagas of Icelanders  •  Jane Smiley  •  Robert Kellog   • EXPLORATION  •  Nine sagas and six tales composed between the years 1000 and 1500, including an account of Leif Eriksson's voyage to North America, all newly translated. With an introduction by Jane Smiley. (ICL13, $22.00)
 
 
Seven Viking Romances  •  Hermann Palssom  •  Paul Edwards   • ANTHOLOGY  •  Entertaining sagas telling of Viking kings, adventurers and gods. (VIK04, $15.00)
 
 
The Shetland Bus, A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival and Adventure  •  David Howarth   • HISTORY  •  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)
 
 
Spitsbergen Explorer Map  •   Ocean Explorer Maps    •  A detailed map of Svalbard at a scale of 1:1,000,000. With illustrated biographies of explorers and a wildlife guide on the reverse. (ARC88, $11.95)
 
 
The Svalbard Archipelago  •  P.J. Capelotti   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A reprint of a WWII-era report on Spitsbergen by U.S. intelligence, covering the geography, history and geo-politics of the archipelago. With 63 photographs, maps, glossary, illustrations, bibliography, appendices, and an index. (ARC91, $49.95)
 
 
Travelers' Tales, A Woman's Europe  •  Marybeth Bond  •  Mary Morris   • ANTHOLOGY  •  Visit Europe through the eyes of women writers, including Frances Mayes and Jan Morris. (EUR160, $17.95)
 
 
The Wife  •  Sigrid Undset  •  Tina Nunnally   • LITERATURE  •  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)
 
 
Wine Country Europe, Touring, Tasting, And Buying At European Regional Wineries  •  Ornella D'Alessio  •  Marco Santini   • FOOD  •  Part how-to, part guidebook, part picture book, this charming coffee table treat covers sprawling French vineyards as well as lesser-known hidden treasures in Austria and Hungary. (EUR191, $35.00)
 
 
 




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