Scandinavians: In Search of the Soul of the North

by Robert Ferguson

Book Overview

"An engaging, layered look into a culture complex enough both to produce stylish rain gear and to embrace the foul weather that necessitates it." --The New York Times Book Review

We fill our homes with Nordic furniture; we envy their humane social welfare system and healthy outdoor lifestyle; we devour their crime fiction. Even their strangely attractive melancholia seems to express a stoic, commonsensical acceptance of life's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1468314823
• ISBN13: 9781468314823
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.4" x 9.1"