Dry Fish And Wet Tales From A Norwegian Seaport

Author : Elias Kraemmer
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ISBN 13 : 9781331738312
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book Dry Fish and Wet written by Elias Kraemmer and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Dry Fish and Wet: Tales From a Norwegian Seaport The last census showed a population of 19,991 inhabitants, but if anyone asked "Holm at the Corner" how big the place was, he would say "between twenty and thirty thousand" - a figure he considered reasonable enough, counting the annual increment in the families he knew. The town had its own traditions. Natives could speak with pride of the days, now long passed, when the firms of C. B. Taline and Veuve Erik Strom had great cargoes of coffee coming direct from Rio, while Danish vessels by the dozen lay alongside the warehouses discharging corn, and unwieldy Dutchmen took in baulks large enough to cut up into arm-chair sections - ay, there was proper timber in those days, not like the thin weedy sticks that come down the river now! And the place had other memories, apart from trade and commerce. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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 whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.