The Barefoot Norwegian
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File Size : 31,72 MB
Release : 2014-02-18
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ISBN : 9780615955902
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File Size : 31,72 MB
Release : 2014-02-18
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Author : Lorraine J Robinson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 38,41 MB
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1465351159
Author : Knut Gjerset
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Page : 570 pages
File Size : 39,10 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Norway
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Author : Jack Lagan
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 27,74 MB
Release : 2013-08-04
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1472903218
The Barefoot Navigator is an unusual and fascinating exploration of the skills of navigation employed by the ancients and transferrable to the present day. The first half of the book investigates the navigation capabilities of seafarers long before modern navigation instruments or charts became available. For example, how did the Polynesians manage to populate an area of ocean larger than North America simply by analysing clouds, currents, wind direction, sun, stars and the flight patterns of ocean birds? And how did the Vikings routinely travel between Iceland, Greenland and Scandinavia - huge tracts of treacherous water? The second part of the book analyses how the techniques of the ancients can be employed by 21st century seafarers to supplement today's navigational hardware - especially in survival situations. This is a unique analysis of practical technology-free navigation, whose techniques can easily be employed by modern navigators to supplement their personal navigation skills in order to just 'know' where they are. It will fascinate navigators and landlubbers alike.
Author : Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
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Page : 604 pages
File Size : 26,55 MB
Release : 1889
Category : Norway
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Author : Geoffrey Malcolm Gathorne-Hardy
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Page : 338 pages
File Size : 14,64 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Norway
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Author : Snorri Sturluson
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Page : 648 pages
File Size : 15,54 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Iceland
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Author : Jørn Brøndal
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 14,46 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780877320951
Ethnic Leadership and Midwestern Politics investigates the notion of ethnic identity as it relates to Scandinavian Americans and political affiliations in Wisconsin, from 1890-1914. Jørn Brøndal traces the evolution of their political alliances as they move from an early patronage system to one of a more enlightened social awareness, prompted by the Wisconsin Progressives led by Robert M. La Follette. Brøndal's exceptionally thorough research and cogent arguments combine to explain the workings of a political system that accorded nationality a major role in politics at the expense of real political, social, and economic issues in the early 1890s, and how (and why) the Progressives determined to change that system. Brøndal explains the change by looking at several important Scandinavian-American institutions, including the church, mutual aid fraternities, the temperance movement, the Scandinavian-language press, political clubs, and labor and farmer organizations, showing how these institutions impacted the construction of a nascent sense of Scandinavian American national identity and made a lasting mark on the Scandinavian-American role in politics.
Author : Snorri Sturluson
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Page : 524 pages
File Size : 49,61 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Iceland
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Author : Jens Jakob Asmussen Worsaae
Publisher : Cosimo Classics
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 48,92 MB
Release : 1852
Category : History
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"My aim in it has been to convey a juster and less prejudiced notion than prevails at present respecting the Danish and Norwegian conquests." -Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae, An Account of the Danes and the Norwegians (1852) An Account of the Danes and the Norwegians in England, Scotland and Ireland (1852) by Jens Warsaae, was based on his research into the Scandinavian invasions of the European mainland. During the 10th century, the European mainland was invaded by Norse settlers from Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, who intermarried with native tribes and came to be known as "Normans." While their influence on the history of France was significant, it was even stronger in England, which the Normans conquered in the 11th century. Warsaae's book, commissioned by the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries, was his attempt to revise the impressions that the 19th century British had of the effects of the Norman conquests on England. This replica of the original text is accompanied by numerous woodcuts.