416円 Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Helsinki, Finland. Founded in 1550, Helsinki the "Daughter of the Baltic" has been the Finnish capital since 1812, when it was rebuilt by the tsars of Russia along the lines of a miniature St. Petersburg, a role it has played in many a Cold War movie....

265円 Norway’s fractured coastline hides seemingly endless fjords and many with numerous crooked finger branches. It is a great destination for cruise ships offering hours of scenic cruising in very sheltered waters. The ports of call are tucked in amongst the islands or down the deepest fjords, somet...

1,176円 On an international scale, Oslo is a pretty small capital but, with just over 500,000 people, it's Norway's biggest city by far. More than 10% of the country's total population lives here; if we count people in the entire Oslofjord area in the summertime, it amounts to one third of the population...

1,042円 'The stories in this collection brilliantly draw a world through brief details and coincidence.' - The Manchester Review.  A woman receives a postcard from a married man she's never met, addressed, it would seem, to his mistress... A successful business man tries to scheme his way out of a patern...

2,170円 A funny, fearless tour behind Scandinavia’s polished image. Michael Booth has long been perplexed by strange paradoxes and character traits of the people of his adopted homelands – and equally bemused by the unquestioning enthusiasm for all things Nordic and hygge that has engulfed the rest of th...

772円 Commencement des troubles en Irlande. ー Départ. ー Nouvelle visite à l’Ecosse. ー La Suède. Sans s’en apercevoir, le temps s’écoule et la rage révolutionnaire, qui semblait un moment vouloir se calmer, a repris de nouvelles forces (*). Que faire ? encore une promenade, cela fait passer le temps ...

2,281円 Eric Dregni’s great-grandfather Ellef fled Norway in 1893 when it was the poorest country in Europe. More than one hundred years later, his great-grandson traveled back to find thatーmostly due to oil and natural gas discoveriesーit is now the richest. The circumstances of his return were serendi...

1,122円 "Travels in The North" is a chronicle of Karel Capek's time spent travelling in northern Europe. An interesting and entertaining account of his Scandinavian sojourn, this book will appeal to fans and collectors of Capek's work, as well as to those with an interest in travel writing in general. Th...

1,885円 **The Christian Science Monitor's #1 Best Book of the Year A witty, informative, and popular travelogue about the Scandinavian countries and how they may not be as happy or as perfect as we assume, “The Almost Nearly Perfect People offers up the ideal mixture of intriguing and revealing facts” (L...

1,300円 L'unica difficoltà nel programmare un viaggio in Norvegia è decidere l'itinerario. A meno di non rimanerci per un paio di mesi, si sarà costretti a rinunciare a qualcosa. E depennare dalla lista alcune attrattive provocherà senz'altro più di un dispiacere. A cosa rinunciare? Alla capitale con i s...

589円 When we think of Edvard Munch, Norway's best-known artist and the so-called "father of Expressionism" we invariably think of his iconic masterpiece, The Scream. But Munch was an extremely prolific and influential artist who left thousands of other works to the city of Oslo when he died. This book...

195円 Example in this ebook Long before Columbus discovered America, there were brave men in the north of Europe who dared to sail farther out upon the unknown waters of the Atlantic than any other people in the world. These daring seamen were called Vikings. Their home was the peninsula of Scandinavia...