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Scandinavia   |   READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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Rough Guide Scandinavia  •   Rough Guide
GUIDEBOOK •  2009 •  PAPER  • 790 PAGES
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)
  Rough Guide Scandinavia
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, $25.00)
  A History of Scandinavia: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland
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)
  Vikings, The North Atlantic Saga
Scandinavia Map  •   HEMA Maps
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With city maps, and including an inset of Spitsbergen, this map shows Denmark and southern Scandinavia on one side and Norway and Lapland on the reverse. 1:800,000. The Michelin map of the region (SCN66) shows all of Scandinavia, including Finland omitted here, on one sheet. Two Sides. 52x39 inches. (SCN16, $12.95)
  Scandinavia Map
 

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Scandinavia & Finland Map  •   Michelin Travel Publications    •  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. (SCN66, $12.95)
 
 
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)
 
 
Fodor's Essential Scandinavia  •   Fodor's   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A practical guide in the popular series, filled with valuable information on accommodation, shopping, sights, and dining. (SCN65, $23.95)
 
 
Insight Guide Norway  •   Insight Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  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, $23.95)
 
 
Rough Guide Copenhagen  •  Lone Mouritsen  •  Andrew Spooner   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A pocket guide to Copenhagen, its history, culture and attractions. (DMK15, $19.99)
 
 
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, $27.99)
 
 
Helsinki, A Cultural and Literary History  •  Neil Kent   • HISTORY  •  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  •  Yves Cohat   • HISTORY  •  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 also features a useful chronology and excerpts from the Viking Sagas. Part of the "Discoveries" series. (VIK01, $12.95)
 
 
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 the natural and cultural history of the island with the authors' own adventures. (ICL07, $24.00)
 
 
Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark  •  Mary Wollstonecraft  •  William Godwin   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Rich in detail of people and place, groundbreaking feminist Wollstonecraft records her observations of a late 18th-century journey through Scandinavia in this small masterpiece. (SCN04, $16.95)
 
 
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, $25.00)
 
 
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, $15.95)
 
 
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. (NOR36, $14.00)
 
 
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, $16.00)
 
 
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)
 
 
Out Stealing Horses  •  Per Petterson   • LITERATURE  •  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, $14.00)
 
 
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo  •  Stieg Larsson   • MYSTERY  •  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, $14.95)
 
 
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, $16.95)
 
 
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, $22.95)
 
 
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)
 
 
Birds of Europe  •  Lars Svensson  •  Dan Zetterstrom  •  Killian Mullarney   • FIELD GUIDE • FAVORITE  •  Featuring 3,500 glorious paintings by Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterstrom, this 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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