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Beowulf (Signet Classics)
Anonymous
Signet Classics, 1999
Beowulf
Excellent poem. It transmits through words very pure feelings and attitudes of men and societies already forgotten.
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Switzerland (Eyewitness Travel Guides)
DK Publishing
DK Travel, 2004
Informative, thorough and entertaining in the bargain!
I'm not a seasoned or jaded traveler ... yet! So a comprehensive travel guide is critical to my preparation for a trip and a great way of post-filling information and details into some of the holes or places that I might have missed or had to rush through when I was ...
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The Norse Myths (Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library)
Kevin Crossley-Holland
Pantheon, 1981
There's only one thing you need to know when looking for an introduction to Norse myths...
...and that this is the book Neil Gaiman recommends on the subject.
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)
W. W. Norton & Company, 2001
beowulf
Product arrived in condition described and in a timely fashion. Would purchase from the buyer again.
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Beowulf: A Verse Translation (Penguin Classics)
Anonymous
Penguin Classics, 2003
Good translation of a great epic
Michael Alexander's translation of Beowulf is among the best available today. While neither as readable nor as poetic as the more famous Heaney translation, Alexander's is exciting, close to the original, and tells the story in such a way that it never fails to grip ...
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Rick Steves' Scandinavia (Rick Steves)
Rick Steves
Avalon Travel Publishing, 2008
Indispensable in Scandinavia
I just returned from a two-week adventure in Scandinavia, where I hung out in Oslo, Copenhagen, and Stockholm. I had a great time seeing the places where my predecessors came from, and I can attribute much of my trip's success to the "Rick Steves' Scandinavia 2005" ...
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The Great Scandinavian Baking Book
Beatrice A. Ojakangas
University of Minnesota Press, 1999
Scandinavian Cook book
I'm very satisfied with my purchase of this cookbook. Being of Norwegian decent, it was very nice to see recipies from my fathers homeland. I've already made 2 things out of the cookbook, and can't wait to go home and make something for my father to bring back some ...
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The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Vikings (Hist Atlas)
John Haywood
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1995
Best Resource for Beginning Scandophiles
This atlas is one of the best possible collections of our knowledge about early Scandinavia. Although the term "Viking" is in the title, hopefully by reading this book you will learn that there was a whole lot more to primitive, expansionist Scandia. The book also does ...
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Arabian Sands (Penguin Classics)
Wilfred Thesiger
Penguin Classics, 2008
archetypal saga of exploration and adventure
Not only a magnificent travelogue chronicling travels in in a harsh, surreal landscape, here we see the age-old yearning of the explorer to discover the things which cannot be found among the comforts and conveniences of civilization,chief of which is a knowledge of ...
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Beowulf: A Verse Translation (Norton Critical Editions)
W. W. Norton, 2002
Much more than an old parchment...
Most people probably think Beowulf is still read merely because it's old. Well, it is old. Wow it's old. Hoary and whiskery old. Best estimates place the composition somewhere between the 7th and 10th centuries A.D. One can speak in terms of millenia when speaking of ...
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A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940
William Trotter
Algonquin Books, 2000
Best Book on Winter War in english
My mother was evacuated from Karelia at the age of 15 years and my father fought in the Winter War. My Finnish parents emigrated to South Africa and I was born here. Therefore my dominant language is english and my sons speak no Finnish. This is a wonderful book to ...
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Norway (Eyewitness Travel Guides)
Snorre Evensberget
DK Travel, 2003
Excellent Single Source for Travel to Norway
No one travel book can hope to capture all that might be useful or interesting to know about Norway, but the Eyewitness Travel Guide to Norway may come closest. Compact and portable, the guides are packed with information. Supplemented with some local maps, this ...
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Luftwaffe Fighters & Fighter-Bombers over the Far North
Kjetil Aakra, Andreas Brekken
Classic Publications, 2008
The Luftwaffe s campaign in Scandinavia and the Far North the Eismeerfront from 1940 to 1945 can still be regarded as largely uncharted territory in terms of historical research. Air operations over the Far North were demanding and intensive, with the two main German fighter units, JG 5 and JG 77, engaged against both the RAF and the Russians. ...
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The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman
Nancy Marie Brown
Harcourt, 2007
Fascinating, solid
I am just a general reader who happens to enjoy well-written history. I've never read much at all about the Vikings but the NY Times review of THE FAR TRAVELER was enticing and I was not let down by its promise. Nancy Marie Brown has reached back to a place and ...
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Traditional Scandinavian Knitting
Sheila McGregor
Dover Publications, 2004
Traditional Scandinavian Knitting
WOW! This is a great book. I just bought it after reading bits and pieces of it from a copy I borrowed from our library. It has Scandinavian, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, and North Atlantic Islands (Facroe and Iceland). It has patterns for Jerseys, Gloves and ...
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