Norwegian Pictures Drawn With Pen And Pencil Containing Also A Glance At Sweden And The Gotha Canal

Author : Richard Lovett
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ISBN 13 : 9781332438235
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Norwegian Pictures written by Richard Lovett and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Norwegian Pictures: Drawn With Pen and Pencil, Containing Also a Glance at Sweden and the Gotha Canal, With a Map and One Hundred and Twenty-Seven Illustrations From Sketches and Photographs 'The West Coast of Scotland is something like the nature of Norway in a general way, except that it is infinitely smaller and less grand; but that constant bright blue sky, those deeply-indented, sinuous, gleaming friths, those headstrong rivers and headlong falls, those steep hill-sides, those long ridges of fells, those peaks and needles rising sharp above them, those hanging glaciers and wreaths of everlasting snow, those towering endless pine-forests, relieved by slender stems of silver birch, those green spots in the midst of the forest, those winding dales and upland lakes; those various shapes of birds and beasts, the mighty crashing elk, the fleet reindeer, the fearless bear, the nimble lynx, the shy wolf; those eagles and swans and sea-birds, those many tones and notes of Nature's voice making distant music through the twilight summer night, those brilliant, flashing, northern lights when days grow short, those dazzling, blinding storms of autumn snow, that cheerful winter frost and cold, that joy of sledging over the smooth ice, when the sharp-shod horse careers at full speed with the light sledge, or rushes down the steep pitches over the crackling snow through the green spruce wood - all these form a Nature of their own. These particular features belong in their combination to no other land. And in the midst of all this natural scenery we find an honest manly race, not the race of the towns and cities, but of the dales and fells, free and unsubdued, holding its own in a country where there are neither lords nor ladies, but simple men and women.' 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.