Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from In Search of Summer Breezes in Northern Europe
Denmark was a commercial nation which had colonies in the East Indies and owned Ice land; that Norway was inhabited by bold navi gators who discovered Greenland in the ninth century, and whose principal food was fish and that Sweden was a cold country, frozen in eight months of the year between the Baltic Sea on the south and the Arctic Ocean on the north: not very glowing descriptions, certainly. But more recently it has begun to be understood that the Scandinavian peoples had done some thing besides sailing dugouts among icebergs, gathering eider-down on perilous rocks, eating cod liver - oil and sleeping on bear skins. Still, as to the climate, the productions of the soil and the present condition of those far-away people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
