Scandinavia category: 802 books

Cover of Lonely Planet Discover Scandinavia
by Lonely Planet, Anthony Ham, Alexis Averbuck
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018

Lonely Planet: The world’s number one travel guide publisher* Lonely Planet**’s Discover Scandinavia** is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Gaze in wonder at the aurora borealis in Finland, sail Norway’s...
Cover of Ancient Scandinavia

Ancient Scandinavia

An Archaeological History from the First Humans to the Vikings

by T. Douglas Price
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015

Scandinavia, a land mass comprising the modern countries of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, was the last part of Europe to be inhabited by humans. Not until the end of the last Ice Age when the melting of huge ice sheets left behind a fresh, barren land surface, about 13,000 BC, did the first humans...
Cover of Lonely Planet Cruise Ports Scandinavia & Northern Europe
by Lonely Planet, Andy Symington, Alexis Averbuck
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018

Lonely Planet: The world’s number one travel guide publisher* Lonely Planet’s Cruise Ports Scandinavia & Northern Europe is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Feast on history, art and culture in Berlin;...
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The Languages of Scandinavia

Seven Sisters of the North

by Ruth H. Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017

From fjords to mountains, schools of herring to herds of reindeer, Scandinavia is rich in astonishing natural beauty. Less well known, however, is that it is also rich in languages. Home to seven languages, Scandinavia has traditionally been understood as linguistically bifurcated between its five...
Cover of Rick Steves Scandinavia
by Rick Steves
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018

**Explore Europe's most prosperous corner: a smorgasbord of Viking ships, brooding castles, and emerald fjords. With Rick Steves on your side, Scandinavia can be yours! Inside Rick Steves Scandinavia you'll find:** Comprehensive coverage for spending a week or more exploring Denmark, Norway,...
Cover of Lonely Planet Scandinavia
by Lonely Planet, Anthony Ham, Alexis Averbuck
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018

Lonely Planet: The world’s number one travel guide publisher* Lonely Planet Scandinavia is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Sail Norway’s fjords or hike miles and miles of wilderness, stare in wonder at...
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Scandinavians

In Search of the Soul of the North

by Robert Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017

Scandinavia is the epitome of cool: we fill our homes with Nordic furniture; we envy their humane social welfare system and their healthy outdoor lifestyle; we glut ourselves on their crime fiction; even their strangely attractive melancholia seems to express a stoic, commonsensical acceptance of...
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Cross and Scepter

The Rise of the Scandinavian Kingdoms from the Vikings to the Reformation

by Sverre Bagge
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2014

Christianity and European-style monarchy—the cross and the scepter—were introduced to Scandinavia in the tenth century, a development that was to have profound implications for all of Europe. Cross and Scepter is a concise history of the Scandinavian kingdoms from the age of the Vikings to the...
Cover of Oslo, the Fjords & Southern Norway
by Henk Berezin
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013

This guide is based on our larger Adventure Guide to Scandinavia, but with abundant color photographs added and focusing on Oslo, the Fjords & Southern Norway. The author is a native of Scandinavia and knows it intimately. The spectacular, scenic fjords of Norway are long, deep and usually surrounded...
Cover of Insight Guides Scandinavia (Travel Guide eBook)
by Insight Guides
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019

Insight Guides: all you need to inspire every step of your journey. An in-depth book. From deciding when to go, to choosing what to see when you arrive, this is all you need to plan your trip and experience the best of Scandinavia, with in-depth insider information on must-see, top attractions...
Cover of Scandinavia since 1500
by Byron J. Nordstrom
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013

Though marked by certain geographical, linguistic, and cultural differences, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and the Faroe Islands are united by a common bond and a shared history. This history comes richly to life in this up-to-date and thorough account of modern Scandinavia.Structuring his...
Cover of Routledge Revivals: Medieval Scandinavia (1993)
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017

First published in 1993, Medieval Scandinavia: An Encyclopedia covers every aspect of the region during the Middle Ages, including rulers and saints, overviews of the countries, religion, education, politics and law, culture and material life, history, literature, and art. Written by a team of expert...
Cover of Scandinavia: A History
by Ewan Butler
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018

Here is the dramatic story of Scandinavia - from its earliest Germanic origins and Viking sea raids to its battles for independence and its involvement in World War II. Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, writes award-winning historian Ewan Butler writes, struggled through unions and separations,...
Cover of The Religion of Ancient Scandinavia
by William Craigie
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016

The ninth and tenth centuries were a period of new development and great changes within the Scandinavian countries. The Viking expeditions brought a large part of the population into direct contact with war and battle, while the former petty kings disappeared, or lost most of their importance, before...
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