Finland in the eighteenth century was not a destination for the
faint-hearted. Travellers told of winter temperatures which froze
brandy in the bottle, and of summer journeys when they were eaten
alive by bugs and mosquitoes. But they also wrote lyrical accounts
of sledging over the ice from Stockholm, and of the idyllic beauty
of Finland's lakes and islands. Tony Lurcock brings to life these
forgotten journeys and the travellers who made them. Many were
upper-class gentlemen taking an alternative to the Grand Tour, and
interested in agriculture, landscape and the picturesque. Others
saw Finland as the home of a primitive race living in a virtuous
'state of nature' - but met the reality of primitiveness with mixed
responses. There were also scientists, adventurers, sailors,
missionaries ...Part anthology, part history, it gives a picture of
Finland at a time when it was little known to the outside world.
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