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Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland By: Bayard Taylor (1825-1878) |
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NORTHERN TRAVEL.
BAYARD TAYLOR.
[Illustration: The Vöring Foss.] NEW YORK: G. P. PUTNAM. 1859.
NORTHERN TRAVEL:
Summer and Winter Pictures OF SWEDEN, DENMARK AND LAPLAND, BY BAYARD TAYLOR. NEW YORK:
G. P. PUTNAM, 115 NASSAU STREET.
1859.
ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by
G. P. PUTNAM,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District
of New York.
PREFACE.
This book requires no further words of introduction than those with
which I have prefaced former volumes that my object in travel is
neither scientific, statistical, nor politico economical; but simply
artistic, pictorial, if possible, panoramic. I have attempted to draw,
with a hand which, I hope, has acquired a little steadiness from long
practice, the people and the scenery of Northern Europe, to colour my
sketches with the tints of the originals, and to invest each one with
its native and characteristic atmosphere. In order to do this, I have
adopted, as in other countries, a simple rule: to live, as near as
possible, the life of the people among whom I travel. The history of
Sweden and Norway, their forms of Government, commerce, productive
industry, political condition, geology, botany, and agriculture, can be
found in other works, and I have only touched upon such subjects where
it was necessary to give completeness to my pictures. I have endeavoured
to give photographs, instead of diagrams, or tables of figures; and
desire only that the untravelled reader, who is interested in the
countries I visit, may find that he is able to see them by the aid of
my eyes. BAYARD TAYLOR. LONDON: November, 1857.
CONTENTS.
Page CHAPTER I. A WINTER VOYAGE ON THE BALTIC. Embarking at Lübeck Put into a Hut The Company on Board Night
on the Baltic Ystad A Life Lost Stopped by Ice A Gale The
Swedish Coast Arrival at Dalarö Conscientious Custom House
Officer 13
CHAPTER II. STOCKHOLM PREPARATIONS FOR THE NORTH. Departure in Sleds A Meteor Winter Scenery Swedish Post
Stations View of Stockholm Arrival Stockholm Weather Swedish
Ignorance of the North Funds Equipment 21
CHAPTER III. FIRST EXPERIENCES OF NORTHERN TRAVEL. A Swedish Diligence Aspect of the Country Upsala A Fellow
Passenger The Northern Gods Scenery Churches Peasant's
Houses Arrival at Gefle Förbud Papers Speaking Swedish
Daylight at Gefle A Cold Italian Experience of Skjuts
and Förbud We reach Snow Night Travel An Arabic Landlord
A Midnight Chase Quarters at Bro The Second Day We reach
Sundsvall 27
CHAPTER IV. A SLEIGH RIDE THROUGH NORRLAND. Sundsvall and the Norrlanders Purchase Sleighs Start again
Driving on the Ice Breakfast at Fjäl Twilight Hymn Angermannland
A Bleak Day Scenery of Norrland Postillions Increase of Cold
Dark Travel The Norrland People The Country and its Products
Northern Thanks Umeå The Inn at Innertafle 39
CHAPTER V. PROGRESS NORTHWARD A STORM. Christmas Temperature First Experience of intense Cold Phenomena
thereof Arctic Travel Splendour of the Scenery The Northern
Nature Gross Appetites My Nose and the Mercury Frozen Dreary
Travel Skellefteå and its Temple A Winter Storm The Landlady
at Abyn Ploughing out Travelling in a Tempest Reach Piteå. 50
CHAPTER VI. JOURNEY FROM PITEÅ TO HAPARANDA. Torment Under the Aurora Borealis A Dismal Night Around the
Bothnian Gulf Forest Scenery Månsbyn The Suspicious Iron Master
Brother Horton and the Cold A Trial of Languages Another
Storm New Year's Day Entrance into Finland The Finns Haparanda. 62
CHAPTER VII. CROSSING THE ARCTIC CIRCLE... Continue reading book >>
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