Norway

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Norway

For the continental European, the word "Norway" generally conjures up visions of granite fjord walls towering above icy seas. The majority of travellers to the North have only seen this country from the deck of some great ocean-going vessel which, for reasons of safety, only sai^ls into the famous, larger fjords of the South-West Coast. The author, however, probes this singular and fascinating land, leading us from Cape Lindesnes in the South, via the floriferous beauty of inner Hardanger to the weather-beaten North Cape and to Spitzbergen, that group of Norwegian islands in the Arctic Ocean.
While stretching 17J0 kilometres, as the crow flies, from North to South, Norway's total coasdine, including all the bays and the 150 000 islands lying off the mainland, actually measures 20 000 kilometres - the distance from rhe North to the South Pole. In little boats, we traverse the skerry-strewn anc reef-skirted waters off the South Coast and experience the magic of the ship's... Tovább

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Norway

For the continental European, the word "Norway" generally conjures up visions of granite fjord walls towering above icy seas. The majority of travellers to the North have only seen this country from the deck of some great ocean-going vessel which, for reasons of safety, only sai^ls into the famous, larger fjords of the South-West Coast. The author, however, probes this singular and fascinating land, leading us from Cape Lindesnes in the South, via the floriferous beauty of inner Hardanger to the weather-beaten North Cape and to Spitzbergen, that group of Norwegian islands in the Arctic Ocean.
While stretching 17J0 kilometres, as the crow flies, from North to South, Norway's total coasdine, including all the bays and the 150 000 islands lying off the mainland, actually measures 20 000 kilometres - the distance from rhe North to the South Pole. In little boats, we traverse the skerry-strewn anc reef-skirted waters off the South Coast and experience the magic of the ship's corso which, according to traditiondating.'rom heathen times, takes place every year on that holy midsummer night which knows no darkness.
The author's coloured photographs are evenly shared among the various great regions of this extensive country, showing up the typical features of the individual areas to their best advantage. The judiciously chosen text, divided into five sections and written by competent Norway connoisseurs, gives an outstanding survey of the characteristics of this Kingdom in the West of the Scandinavian Peninsular. Climax of our Dorthern trip is undoubtedly theexperiencc of seeing the midnight sun against the scintillatine crystal walls of the icy coasts of Spit/ bergen, that bit of Norway so remote from the mother country and so near thp
North Pole, of which Goethe wro'r
"The shining light of Paradise Takes turns with black and dreadful
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