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Through Finland in Carts

Chapter 30: NELSON LIBRARY OF NOTABLE BOOKS
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About This Book

A travel narrative records journeys across Finland in small carts, blending route details with evocative sketches of lakes, forests, and small towns. The author describes life in country houses, public baths, a monastery night and local festivals while engaging with folklore and the national epic. Observations cover social manners, education and the position of women, and portray natural spectacles such as roaring cataracts, pine ridges, tar-boats and river rapids alongside scenes of weddings and local industry. The volume closes with reflections on nationality and political questions relevant to the period.

Footnotes:

[A] A Winter Jaunt to Norway.

[B] Translated from the Swedish by Alfred Perceval Graves.

[C] A Girl's Ride in Iceland.

[D] Götstaff is old Finnish for Gustavus.

[E] Described in A Winter Jaunt to Norway.

[F] Journal for Literature and General Instruction in Civic Affairs.

Established 1798

T. NELSON AND SONS

PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS

THE NELSON LIBRARY OF NOTABLE BOOKS.

Uniform with this Volume and same Price.

FORTHCOMING VOLUMES.

FELICITY IN FRANCE.

Constance Maud.

Miss Maud has written a fascinating guide book to the French countryside. A pleasant thread of narrative is woven into the book, but it is primarily a description of travels in different parts of France. The perfect sympathy with and understanding of French life, and the humour and grace of the style make it an ideal travelling companion.

(July 2.)

MY CLIMBS IN THE ALPS AND CAUCASUS.

A. F. Mummery.

Mr. A. F. Mummery, who was killed by an avalanche in attempting the ascent of Nanga Parbat in the Himalayas, was probably the greatest climber of his day. He was the first, for example, to ascend that most formidable of the Chamonix Aiguilles, the Grepon, where the "Mummery Chimney" still commemorates his achievement. The present volume is one of the great classics of mountaineering, and can be read with delight by those who have never seen anything higher than the Surrey Downs.

(August 6.)

NELSON LIBRARY OF NOTABLE BOOKS

CONDENSED LIST.

  • Scrambles Amongst the Alps.
  • Collections and Recollections.
  • The Great Boer War.
  • Life of John Nicholson.
  • Dean Hole's "Memories."
  • Life of Gladstone.
  • Psalms in Human Life.
  • Wild Life in a Southern County.
  • The Forest.
  • The Golden Age.
  • Sir Henry Hawkins's Reminiscences.
  • Selected Essays.
  • Life of Lord Russell of Killowen.
  • Making of Modern Egypt.
  • From the Cape to Cairo.
  • Life of Alexander Hamilton.
  • A Book about the Garden.
  • Culture and Anarchy.
  • Collections and Recollections. 2nd Series.
  • Life of Frank Buckland.
  • A Modern Utopia.
  • With Kitchener to Khartum.
  • Unveiling of Lhasa.
  • Life of Lord Dufferin.
  • Life of Dean Stanley.
  • Popular Astronomy.
  • Dream Days.
  • Round the World on a Wheel.
  • Path to Rome.
  • The Life of Canon Ainger.
  • Reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill.
  • A Social Departure.
  • Letters and Recollections of Sir Walter Scott.
  • Literature and Dogma.
  • Sermons by the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon.
  • My Confidences.
  • Sir Frank Lockwood.
  • The Making of a Frontier.
  • Life of General Gordon.
  • Collected Poems of Henry Newbolt.
  • Pot-Pourri from a Surrey Garden.
  • The Ring and the Book.
  • The Alps from End to End.
  • The English Constitution.
  • In India.
  • The Life of Cobden.
  • The Life of Parnell.
  • Havelock's March.
  • Up from Slavery.
  • Recollections of the Rt. Hon. Sir Algernon West.
  • Great Englishmen of the Sixteenth Century.
  • Where Black Rules White.
  • Historical Mysteries.
  • The Strenuous Life.
  • Memories Grave and Gay.
  • Life of Danton.
  • A Pocketful of Sixpences.
  • The Romance of a Proconsul (Sir George Grey).
  • A Book about Roses.
  • Random Reminiscences.
  • The London Police Courts.
  • The Amateur Poacher.
  • The Bancrofts.
  • At the Works.
  • Mexico as I Saw It.
  • Eighteenth Century Vignettes.
  • The Great Andes of the Equator.
  • The Early History of C. J. Fox.
  • Through the Heart of Patagonia.
  • Browning as a Religious Teacher.
  • Life of Tolstoy.
  • Paris to New York.
  • Life of Lewis Carroll.
  • A Naturalist in the Guianas.
  • The Mantle of the East.
  • Letters of Dr. John Brown.
  • Jubilee Book of Cricket.
  • By Desert Ways to Baghdad.
  • Fields, Factories, and Workshops.
  • Some Old Love Stories.
  • Life of Lord Lawrence.
  • Problems of Poverty.
  • The Burden of the Balkans.
  • Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay—I. and II.
  • What I Saw in Russia.
  • Wild England of To-day.
  • Leaves from an Inspector's Logbook.

Others in Preparation.

THOMAS NELSON AND SONS.