Travel Memories from Norway 1860
Description:... As he travels through Norway to attend the coronation of the new king in Trondheim, Aasmund Olavsson Vinje gives an account of the state of the kingdom as he travels along. Accounts of beautiful mountains and valleys and fjords, as well as of wealthy farms which seem to be growing increasingly opulent through development and new ways of agriculture. It seems as if education and enlightenment are steadily growing in Norway. That however, is only one side of the story. Not all of the farms are as well run, not everyone as well educated, and there is still poverty, backwards ways of thinking and bad practices in abundance. "These are my animals," A. O. Vinje exclaims when confronted with the national filthiness of Norway anno 1860. For the first time in English, A. O. Vinje's chronicles from his travel through Norway in the summer of 1860 are now available in this translated and illustrated edition.
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