SVEN TAGIL BROCKDORFF, VICTOR GRÆNSELAND (Borderland). En Historisk Rejse I Skånsk-Danske Grænseområder (A Historical Journey in the Border area of Skåne & Denmark
Author: Tägil, Sven
Country: Denmark
Language: Danish
Year Published: 1997
No. of pages: 156
Illustrations: 0 Color Illustrations. 68 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Clothbound w/ Jacket
Size: 8 1/2”x 11”
Weight: 2.00
ISBN: 8778510678
Biblio/Bio: Bio.
Code: 5097
Price: $75.00
A historical look at the land surrounding Skåne and Denmark, from its castles, houses and cities, to the people and their stories of Grænseland. This book is most informational and beautiful with pencil sketches and illustrations.
SWEDEN & SWEDES.
Author: Britton, Claes ed
Country: Sweden
Language: English
Year Published: 2004
No. of pages: 31
Illustrations: 56 Color Illustrations. 22 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 9 1/2”x 8 1/2
Weight: 0.00
ISBN: 9152007510
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 5873
Price: $19.50
Sweden is a small Nordic nation that, in the space of a century, has transformed itself from a poor, underdeveloped agrarian country into one of the world’s most modern and sophisticated welfare states and industrial nations: truly a feat worthy of taking pride in. Indeed, they are proficient, hard working, conscientious and well-groomed - and to an outsider, the Swedes at first glance may appear to be a somewhat shy, withdrawn, anonymous people. But don’t let yourself be fooled by this surface. Beneath it lurks madness, sensuality, sentimentality and a well-disguised national pride and self-confidence. This color illustrated booklet gives you insight into the Swedish culture.
SWEDISH FIELD TRIP TO THE OUTER HEBRIDES, 1934, A. In Memory of Sven T. Kjellberg and Olof Hasslöf
Author: Fenton, Alexander with Mark A. Mulhern
Country: Scotland
Language:
Year Published: 2012
No. of pages: 109
Illustrations: 80 Color Illustrations. 35 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 7 1/2”x 6”
Weight: 2.00
ISBN: 9781905267651
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 6726
Price: $40.00
In 1934, Sven T. Kjellberg, Director of Sweden's Göteborgs Historiska Museum (now called the Göteborgs Stadsmuseum), and his assistant, Olof Hasslöf, traveled through the islands of the Outer Hebrides, off the west coast of Scotland, in order to research the area's rich maritime culture. Their emphasis was on its material culture- the boats, the tools of the trade. Now, renowned ethnologist Professor Emeritus Alexander Fenton presents this pioneering research with additional material of his own. Key features of the book are its 80 sepia photographs and 35 line drawings from nearly 80 years ago, published here for the first time.
TRAVELS IN AMERICA 1851-1855.
Author: Roos, Rosalie
Country: Illinois
Language: English
Year Published: 1982
No. of pages: 152
Illustrations: 6 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 9 1/2”x 6 1/2”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 080931018X
Biblio/Bio: Bio.
Code: 3566
Price: $34.50
Rosalie Roos ached so much for personal independence, as her own words suggest, that she set sail for the New World to escape the stifling caste of womanhood in the Sweden of the 1850s. From the beginning she considered her decision to travel to America as a test of the strength of her own independent spirit. At the same time she tested the American dream in its marvelously luxurious setting in South Carolina (1851-1855), just when the slavery debate was entering its final and most heated phase before the actual outbreak of war.
UNCLE PETER THE STORY OF PETER LASSEN AND THE LASSEN TRAIL.
Author: Lassen, René Weybye
Country: Manton
Language: English
Year Published: 1990
No. of pages: 128
Illustrations: 4 Color Illustrations. 74 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 8 1/2”x 5 1/2”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: No ISBN no
Biblio/Bio: Bibl. Bio. Index.
Code: 2206
Price: $19.50
Some 150 years ago “Uncle Peter” Lassen, an ancestor of the Danish author, became a frontiersman who made his way across the vast and untamed continental United States. The author made repeated trips to America, where he sought out historians and visited the monuments and landmarks dedicated to his “Uncle Peter.” This book is a marvel of research on the topic of a real frontiersman’s extraordinary adventures and achievments in a new land.