Destination: Norway
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Travel Literature
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Norway has a rich selection of books which make for great pre-departure reading or an accompaniment to long, lazy cruises through the fjords. Apart from the main online bookstores, you might also want to try The Scandinavia Connection.
Summer Light: A Walk Across Norway, by Andrew Stevenson, is an affectionate and luminous account of a walk from Oslo to Bergen which captures the essence of Norway.
Letters from High Latitudes, by Lord Dufferin, evokes a mid-19th-century sailing trip around the Arctic, including Jan Mayen, Svalbard and mainland Norway, with extensive references to the more romantic aspects of Norwegian history.
Barry Lopez the author of Arctic Dreams, wrote a classic, ethereal and haunting treatment of Arctic regions, including references to the Sami culture.
A readable account of travelling through the Norwegian highlands accompanied by mountain myths is The Fellowship of Ghosts: A Journey Through the Mountains of Norway, by Paul Watkins.
Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic’s Edge, by Jill Fredston, documents the harsh richness of Norway’s arctic coasts by an author who rowed her way almost along its length.
An amusing, honest account of an American woman’s time spent as an expat in Karmøy is Island Soul: A Memoir of Norway, by Patti Jones Morgan.
Letters on Sweden, Norway & Denmark, by Mary Wollstonecraft, recounts several emotion-filled months in late-18th-century Scandinavia with a pervasive and endearing tone of the Englishwoman abroad.
Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe, by Bill Bryson, revisits, after almost three decades, an early-1970s backpacking trip from Norway’s Arctic Circle to the island of Capri in Italy made by one of travel literature’s funniest writers.
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