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Travels through Norway and Lapland during the Years 1806, 1807, and 1808 (Paperback)
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Travels through Norway and Lapland during the Years 1806, 1807, and 1808 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science
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In Travels Through Norway and Lapland, Leopold von Buch
(1774-1853), a German geologist and palaeontologist, recounts his
expedition to Scandinavia in 1806-1808. This book, originally
published in Berlin in 1810, and in this English translation in
1813, describes these large, sparsely populated regions at the turn
of the nineteenth century. The translator's preface provides an
important geo-political backdrop - the possibility of war in Norway
and the machinations of Sweden, Russia and Great Britain over the
future of this territory. Von Buch's observations, however, are
firmly engaged with the scientific. He writes that his motivation
for the expedition was to find out how the harsh climate influenced
the land, and he records detailed information about the weather and
the region's mineralogy and geological structure. He also describes
the local population, providing a wide-ranging account of life in
the remote reaches of Northern Europe.
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