NORWEGIAN LIFE AND LANDSCAPE.

Martin, Anthony.

Published by Elek, London, 1952

About this Item

167 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). Map endpapers, b&w plates. "This book sketches the historical experiences, the cultural and environmental influences which have made national characteristics and form the basis of policies in home and foreign affairs. Fierce patriotism and stubborn loyalties to friends and traditions are perhaps to be expected in a people who have discovered how to live well in their inordinately long country extending far beyond the Arctic Circle and slashed into a crazy pattern by glaciers, mountains and fjords. Democratic institutions, the huge merchant fleet, the midnight sun, the cod fisheries of Lofoten, Hanseatic Bergen, the growing pains of the capital of Oslo, the creation of a new language by Parliamentary decree and especially the long associations with the English across the Northern Sea, form part of the picture. A fascinating folk and a very beautiful country - the two cannot be separated." Boards are slightly curled at fore-edges, very light browning to edges of textblock, foxing on top of textblock, tiny foxing marks on bottom of textblock, faint foxing on boards and on inside hinges, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, minor edgewear. Dust jacket has light edgewear/wrinkling at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, browning on spine and flap-folds, scattered light foxing marks - mainly on inside of spine, minor soiling. Seller Inventory # 21954

Bibliographic Details

Title: NORWEGIAN LIFE AND LANDSCAPE.

Publisher: Elek, London

Publication Date: 1952

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

Dust Jacket Condition: Good+

Edition: First Edition.