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Land of the Midnight Sun; Summer and Winter Journeys Through Sweden, Norway, Lapland, and Northern Finland, Volume II ONLY
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Title: Land of the Midnight Sun; Summer and Winter Journeys Through Sweden, Norway, Lapland, and Northern Finland, Volume II ONLY
Author: Paul B. Du Chaill
Publisher: Harper & Brothers, New York
Published: 1882
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: 1st edition
Number of Pages: 474
Catalogs: Vintage Travel, Europe, Anthropology
Description: Volume II ONLY. Richly illustrated throughout, with frontispiece of reindeer, protected by tissue. Original blue cloth binding with gilt and red decoration on boards and spine. Edges show light wear, and light scuffing to boards, but generally very clean and undamaged. Taupe glazed pastedowns. Interior is slightly tanned but unmarked. Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (c. 1831-1903) was a French-American traveler, zoologist, and anthropologist. He became famous in the 1860s as the first modern European outsider to confirm the existence of gorillas, and later the Pygmy people of central Africa. Du Chaillu traveled extensively across Scandinavia between 1871 and 1878. His aim in writing "was to make a study of the physical characteristics of the country and to closely observe the manners and customs of its inhabitants." This volume discusses winter in Scandinavia, with short, sunless days and beautiful nights, Christmas festivals and preparations, a trip to Stockholm from Christiana by rail, snow storms, winter in small towns and on farms, cold weather attire and snow shoes, driving reindeer, the customs and dwellings of Laplanders (Sami), relationships between Finns and Lapps (Sami), the Norwegian coast, the Lofoten Islands, fishing and migration of cod, the climate of Scandinavia, navigation in storms, the advent of spring, wedding customs, the mountainous regions of Norway, large Swedish estates, bathing and spas, schools, cathedrals, castles, mines, and much more. Hardcover, very good condition. 474 pages, octavo.
Author: Paul B. Du Chaill
Publisher: Harper & Brothers, New York
Published: 1882
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: 1st edition
Number of Pages: 474
Catalogs: Vintage Travel, Europe, Anthropology
Description: Volume II ONLY. Richly illustrated throughout, with frontispiece of reindeer, protected by tissue. Original blue cloth binding with gilt and red decoration on boards and spine. Edges show light wear, and light scuffing to boards, but generally very clean and undamaged. Taupe glazed pastedowns. Interior is slightly tanned but unmarked. Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (c. 1831-1903) was a French-American traveler, zoologist, and anthropologist. He became famous in the 1860s as the first modern European outsider to confirm the existence of gorillas, and later the Pygmy people of central Africa. Du Chaillu traveled extensively across Scandinavia between 1871 and 1878. His aim in writing "was to make a study of the physical characteristics of the country and to closely observe the manners and customs of its inhabitants." This volume discusses winter in Scandinavia, with short, sunless days and beautiful nights, Christmas festivals and preparations, a trip to Stockholm from Christiana by rail, snow storms, winter in small towns and on farms, cold weather attire and snow shoes, driving reindeer, the customs and dwellings of Laplanders (Sami), relationships between Finns and Lapps (Sami), the Norwegian coast, the Lofoten Islands, fishing and migration of cod, the climate of Scandinavia, navigation in storms, the advent of spring, wedding customs, the mountainous regions of Norway, large Swedish estates, bathing and spas, schools, cathedrals, castles, mines, and much more. Hardcover, very good condition. 474 pages, octavo.
