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Title: Peeps at Many Lands: Norway

Author: A.F. Mockler-Ferryman

Illustrator: A. Heaton Cooper
Nico Jungman

Release Date: February 23, 2008 [EBook #24676]

Language: English

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Peeps at Many Lands

Norway

By

Lieut.-Col. A. F. Mockler-Ferryman, F.R.G.S., F.Z.S.

With twelve full page illustrations in colour

By

A. Heaton Cooper & Nico Jungman

London
Adam and Charles Black
1911

CONTENTS

Chapter Page

I. The Land of the Vikings 1
II. Modern Norway 5
III. The People and Their Industries 9
IV. On the Farm 15
V. Manners and Customs 20
VI. School and Play 25
VII. Some Fairy Tales 32
VIII. The Hardanger Fjord 37
IX. A Glimpse of the Fjelds 43
X. Wild Nature--Beasts 48
XI. Wild Nature--Birds 54
XII. Waterfalls, Snowfields, and Glaciers 60
XIII. Driving in Norway 66
XIV. Arctic Days and Nights 70
XV. Laplanders at Home 78
XVI. Winter in Christiania 84

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Skjaeggedalsfos, Hardanger Fjord frontispiece
Facing Page
Naerodal, from Stalheim, Sogne Fjord viii
Fishing Through the Ice on Christiania Fjord 9
Making "F