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Insight Guide Scandinavia
Insight Guides
GUIDEBOOK 2003 PAPER 439 PAGES
A handsomely illustrated guide to all Scandinavia from Denmark to Sweden, Norway and Finland. It's a compact overview of the culture, history, nature and attractions of the region, featuring outstanding color maps and hundreds of photographs.
(SCN22, $23.95)
A History of Scandinavia: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland
T.K Derry
HISTORY 2000 PAPER 447 PAGES
This comprehensive volume gives a historical overview of Scandinavia from prehistory to the present day, with chapters on the Viking and Lutheran kingdoms, medieval times, monarchies, the World Wars and modern period through the 1970s (with a short chapter addressing the 1990s). It emphasizes the common cultural, political and social backgrounds of the five modern states.
(SCN03, $23.50)
Vikings, The North Atlantic Saga
William Fitzhugh Elisabeth Ward
HISTORY 2000 PAPER 432 PAGES
Published in conjunction with a Smithsonian exhibit, this excellent book explores the culture and history of the Vikings, and especially their well documented voyages to North America. Featuring 400 color photographs, the book also includes lively essays on Viking art, religion, daily life and colonies. It's especially good on Viking expansion and settlements in North America.
(VIK11, $34.95)
Scandinavia Map
HEMA Maps
MAP
A double-sided map of northern and southern Scandinavia at a scale of 1:800,000.
(SCN16, $12.95)
Scandinavia Atlas
Freytag & Berndt
A spiral-bound atlas with large-scale color maps (1:250,000 to 1:400,000).
(SCN48, $39.95)
A Hedonist's Guide to Tallinn
Laurence Shorter
GUIDEBOOK
(BLT29, $16.95)
Eyewitness Guide Stockholm
Kaj Sandell
GUIDEBOOK
This superb, fully illustrated guide to Stockholm and surrounding islands features dozens of local maps and site diagrams.
(SWE18, $20.00)
Insight Guide Norway
Insight Guides
GUIDEBOOK
COMING IN JANUARY
A profusely illustrated overview of Norway, featuring concise essays on natural history, politics and culture, hundreds of photos and maps, and some limited practical information.
(NOR03, $22.95)
Lonely Planet Scandinavian Europe
Glenda Bendure
Ned Friary
GUIDEBOOK
An excellent practical guide to Scandinavian countries, as well as St. Petersburg and Tallinn, featuring a good overview of culture, history and nature, and plenty of information on excursions, accommodations and sightseeing.
(SCN01, $24.99)
Rick Steves' Scandinavia
Rick Steves
GUIDEBOOK
A personable, practical guide in the growing series by travel guru Rick Steves.
(SCN44, $19.95)
Rough Guide Copenhagen
Lone Mouritsen
Andrew Spooner
GUIDEBOOK
A pocket guide to Copenhagen, its history, culture and attractions.
(DMK15, $16.99)
A Short History of Finland
Fred Singleton
Anthony F. Upton
HISTORY
A concise, thoroughly readable and scholarly history of Finland from early settlement to Finland's admission into the European Union in 1995.
(SCN19, $21.99)
Swedish Mentality
Ake Daun
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
Daun elucidates such issues of national character as why the Swedes distrust elevators and like to fish, before valiantly posing that most unaskable of questions: why are Swedes so dull? (His question, not ours.)
(SWE21, $29.95)
The Northern Wars: War, State and Society in Northeastern Europe, 1558-1721
Robert I. Frost
HISTORY
A scholarly, detailed history of the struggle over Estonia, Livonia and control of the Nordic-Baltic region during the 16th-18th centuries, a highly militarized period in the region's history.
(BLT15, $54.20)
The Vikings
Else Roesdahl
HISTORY
A captivating and well-written look at Norse civilization. Roesdahl goes beyond the limited view of the ruthless Viking invaders, instead creating a full picture of the vibrant, artistic, agricultural and exploratory culture.
(VIK09, $17.00)
The Vikings, Lords of the Seas
Yves Cohat
HISTORY
An indispensable reference that fits in your pocket, this slim volume, part of the "Discoveries" series, 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.
(VIK01, $12.95)
The Winter War: The Soviet Attack on Finland, 1939-1940
Eloise Engle
Lauri Paananen
HISTORY
The story of the 105-day campaign against Finland in the early days of WWII. This book displays how the Finns, though vastly outnumbered, showed great ingenuity in the field of battle.
(SCN20, $19.95)
A Year in Lapland, Guest of the Reindeer Herders
Hugo Beach
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
OUT OF PRINT
An account of a year among the Saami in Swedish Lapland. An anthropologist by training, the author combines travelogue, history and meditation on the cycle of life in the north.
(SCN12, $25.00)
Helsinki, A Cultural and Literary History
Neil Kent
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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)
Iceland, Land of the Sagas
Jon Krakauer
David Roberts
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Krakauer and colleague David Roberts hike and climb around Iceland in this classic travel narrative, reissued as a paperback and featuring Krakauer's color photographs. The book interweaves natural and cultural history of the island with the authors' own adventures.
(ICL07, $21.95)
Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
Mary Wollstonecraft
William Godwin
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
In this small masterpiece, rich in detail of people and place, groundbreaking feminist Wollstonecraft records her observations of a late 18th-century journey through Scandinavia.
(SCN04, $16.95)
The Sagas of Icelanders
Jane Smiley
Robert Kellog
EXPLORATION
Nine sagas and six tales composed between 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)
We Die Alone, A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance
David Howarth
Stephen Ambrose
EXPLORATION
This 1955 account of courage, determination and valor in Nazi-occupied Norway follows Jan Baalrud's extraordinary escape across the Lyngen Alps.
(NOR14, $16.95)
Norwegian Folk Tales
Peter Asbjornsen
ANTHOLOGY
This rich collection of stories, interpreted by a leading scholar on ancient traditions and tales, will delight both adults and children.
(NOR06, $14.95)
Beowulf
Seamus Heaney
LITERATURE
A best-selling, critically acclaimed verse translation of the seminal Anglo-Saxon epic, which tells of a Scandinavian hero's bravery in defending Denmark from the monster Grendel. Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney translated.
(SCN27, $13.95)
Growth of the Soil
Knut Hamsun
LITERATURE
The epic tale of a homesteader in the mountainous Norwegian interior, which helped win Hamsun a Nobel Prize in 1920. An insightful and engaging look at life in Norway and living off the land.
(NOR36, $13.00)
Independent People, An Epic
Halldor Laxness
LITERATURE
FAVORITE
The Nobel Prize-winning author's masterwork about a hard-headed, independent-minded sheep farmer is a mock-epic redolent of rural Icelandic life in the early days of the 20th century.
(ICL01, $15.95)
Nordic Gods and Heroes
Padraic Colum
Willy Pogany
LITERATURE
Column's classic retelling of the dramatic tales of the Norse gods and goddesses, originally published in 1928. With 40 illustrations.
(SCN39, $10.95)
The Kalevala
Keith Bosley
LITERATURE
This national epic of Finland, based on ancient heroic poetry, was a rallying flag for national aspirations as Finland struggled to break away from Russia in the 19th century.
(SCN14, $15.95)
The Messiah of Stockholm, A Novel
Cynthia Ozick
LITERATURE
Set in the dark of Stockholm's winter, this atmospheric short novel follows the peregrinations of Lars Andemeing -- and his search for his father Bruno Schulz.
(SWE11, $12.00)
The Saga of the Volsungs
Jesse Byock
LITERATURE
Full of traditional Norse lore, including runic knowledge, jealous princes, betrayals, unrequited love, the vengeance of a Barbarian queen, the greed of Attila the Hun and the mythic deeds of a dragon-slayer, these tales are essential reading for anyone wishing to understand Viking society.
(SCN05, $14.95)
The Stories of Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen
Diana Crone Frank
Jeffrey Frank
LITERATURE
FAMILY
A newly refurbished collection of twenty-two tales, adroitly retranslated by Diana and Jeffrey Frank and with the original illustrations.
(DMK27, $21.95)
The Summer Book
Tove Jansson
Thomas Teal
LITERATURE
Tove Jansson's slender novel is a season told in episodes in the lives a six-year-old girl, awakening to existence, and her grandmother, who is nearing the end of hers.
(SCN56, $14.00)
The Wreath
Sigrid Undset
Tina Nunnally
LITERATURE
A romantic masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian author, first published in 1927. The first volume in Undset's trilogy of historical novels recreating a woman's life during the Middle Ages in devoutly Catholic Norway. Also available are the other two parts of the trilogy, "The Mistress of Husaby" (NOR16) and "The Cross" (NOR17).
(NOR10, $15.00)
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