Through Scandinavia to Moscow
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Excerpt from Through Scandinavia to Moscow: With Many Illustrations and MapsAfterward, some of these letters were published here and there; now they are put together into this little book. I had my kodak with me and have thus been able to add to the text some of the scenes my lens made note of.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format ...
Chapters (234)
- THROUGH SCANDINAVIA TO MOSCOW
- FOREWORD
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- I. London to Denmark Across the North Sea.
- II. Esbjerg—Across Jutland, Funen and Zealand, the Little Belt and the Big Belt to Copenhagen—Friends Met along the Way.
- III. Copenhagen, a Quaint and Ancient City.
- IV. Elsinore and Kronborg—An Evening Dinner Party.
- V. Across the Sund to Sweden and Incidents of Travel to Kristiania.
- VI. A Day Upon the Rand Fjord and Along the Etna Elv—To Frydenlund—Ole Mon Our Driver.
- VII. A Drive Along the Baegna Elv—the Aurdals Vand and Many More to Skogstad.
- VIII. Over the Height of Land—A Wonderful Ride Down the Laera Dal to the Sogne Fjord.
- IX. A Day Upon the Sogne Fjord.
- X. From Stalheim to Eida—The Waterfall of Skjerve Fos—The Mighty Hardanger Fjord.
- XI. The Buarbrae and Folgefonden Glaciers—Cataracts and Mountain Tarns—Odda to Horre.
- XII. Over the Lonely Haukeli Fjeld—Witches and Pixies, and Maidens Milking Goats.
- XIII. Descending from the Fjelde—The Telemarken Fjords—The Arctic Twilight.
- XIV. Kristiania to Stockholm—A Wedding Party—Differing Norsk and Swede.
- XV. Stockholm the Venice of the North—Life and Color of the Swedish Capital—Manners of the People and their King.
- XVI. How We Entered Russia—The Passport System—Difficult to Get Into Russia and More Difficult to Get Out.
- XVII. St. Petersburg—The Great Wealth of the Few—The Bitter Poverty of the Many—Conditions Similar to Those Preceding the French Revolution.[2]
- XVIII. En Route to Moscow—Under Military Guard—Suspected of Designs on Life of the Czar.
- XIX. Our Arrival at Moscow—Splendor and Squalor—Enlightenment and Superstition—Russia Asiatic Rather Than European.
- XX. The Splendid Pageant of the Russian Mass—The Separateness of Russian Religious Feeling From Modern Thought—Russia Mediaeval and Pagan.
- XXI. The First Snows—Moscow to Warsaw—Fat Farm Lands and Frightful Poverty of the Mujiks Who Own them and Till them—I Recover My Passport.
- XXII. The Slav and the Jew—The Slav’s Envy and Jealousy of the Jew.
- XXIII. Across Germany and Holland to England—A Hamburg Wein Stube, the “Simple Fisher-Folk” of Maarken—Two Gulden at Den Haag.
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