The Fjords and Folk of Norway (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Fjords and Folk of Norway

The geographical position of Norway, while affording all the grandeur and the stimulating rigour of the north, yet combines with it during the summer months, a mild and invigorating climate and a luxurious and varied vegetation unequalled in any northern country. It offers, too, a diversity of attractions. To the traveller and the nature lover, it throws open a region of natural as well as artistic beauty. On its mountains, and in its ice-carved val...