Insight Guides: Norway by Insight Guides
This book contains detailed coverage of the whole of Norway, with chapters covering the major cities and every area, full color mapping throughout, and useful practical information.
Insight Guides: Norway
Summary
Highly visual, this full-color guide to Norway contains detailed coverage which offers the visitor a beguiling mix of traditions and modern convenience, spectacular nature, and city delights.
Insight Guides: Norway Summary
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Best of Norway; Northern Contrasts; An Untamed Land. History: Decisive Dates; Beginnings; Kings and Christianity; The 400-Year Sleep; Union with Sweden; An Independent, Modern Country. Features: Who are the Norwegians?; Epic Explorers; The Sami: People of Four Nations; Wild Norway; An Outdoor Life; Sporting Passions; Fishing: Sport and Sustenance; The Traditional Arts; Art and Culture; Why Does Everything Cost So Much? Insights: Mini Features: The Great Exodus; The Heroes of Telemark; Black Gold; Language; Norway and Its Neighbours; A Bird-Watcher's Paradise; Morgedal and Telemark Revival; The Great Ski Jump; To Drink or Not to Drink; Nobel's Peace Prize; Roros and the Old Copper Country; A Country Afload; Stiklestad; Photo Features: Folklore: Sagas and Folktales; Natures's Larder; Architecture; Land of the Midnight Sun. Places: Introduction; Oslo, Nordic City of Light; Around Oslo and Its Fjord; The Heart of Norway; Peak and Plateau; Telemark and the South; Rogaland; Stavanger; Hordaland; Bergen; The Most Beautiful Voyage; From Sogn to Nordfjord; More og Romsdal; Trondheim; Into the Arctic; The Far North; Svalbard. Travel Tips: Transport; Accomodation; Eating Out; Activities; A-Z: Practical Information; Language; Further Reading. Maps: Norway; Central Oslo; Oslo; Around Oslo & Its Fjord; The Heart of Norway; Southern Norway and Its Fjords; Stavanger; Southwest Coast; Bergen; The Hurtigruten; More og Romsdal; Trondheim; Into the Arctic; The Far North; Svalbard; Oslo T-bane. Inside front cover: Norway; Inside back cover: Oslo.
Additional information
GOR004165850
9789812822529
9812822526
Insight Guides: Norway by Insight Guides
Used - Very Good
Paperback
APA Publications
2011-02-23
384
N/A
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