Armchair Travel - Visit Norway: Also Reads...

Norway's most famous artist. This is a penetrating reassessment of Munch's memorable paintings and profound artistic legacy. Examines the works of Edvard Munch (1863-1944) in the light of his precarious mental state. Following a nervous breakdown in 1908, Munch underwent electroshock therapy, which prompted a marked change in his art work. Essays consider Munch's position in the art world, his conception of self as a means of experimentation, and the psychological content of his paintings. A comprehensive study of an enigmatic artist and his remarkable legacy.

If you visit Norway, you are going to be eating a lot of salmon. Here's a story of how salmon makes its way to your dinner plate. Award-winning author, Mark Kurlansky, who also wrote Cod: A biography of a fish that changed the world, Salt: A world history; and World without Fish, employs his signature multi-century storytelling to chronicle the harrowing yet awe-inspiring life cycle of salmon. Kurlansky traveled widely and observed salmon and those who both pursue and protect them in the Pacific and the Atlantic, in Ireland, Norway, Iceland, Japan, and even in the robust but not as frequently visited Kamchatka Peninsula. He observes and reports on the misdirected attempts to manipulate salmon and its environments.

After the men in an Arctic Norwegian town are wiped out, the women must survive a sinister threat in this "perfectly told" 1600s parable. Finnmark, Norway, 1617. Twenty-year-old Maren Magnusdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the sea break into a sudden and reckless storm. Forty fishermen, including her brother and father, are drowned and left broken on the rocks below. The women of the tiny Arctic town of Vardø must fend for themselves. Until a stranger arrives - . Absalom Cornet and his his young Norwegian wife, Ursa, and Vardo's existence is threatened.. Inspired by the real events of the Vardø storm and the 1621 witch trials.

A historical novel about the extraordinary woman who captured Napoleon's heart, created a dynasty, and changed the course of history. Set during the French Revolution, Desiree Clary has a chance encounter with Napoleon Bonaparte. But her newly laid plans with Napoleon turn to sudden heartbreak until she meets Napoleon's confidant and star general, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, who goes on to become King of Sweden and Norway, a Scandinavian dynasty and outlasts Napoleon's empire.

Set against a stunning Scandinavian backdrop, a gritty novel of psychological suspense that asks the question how far would you go to hold onto what you have? Cecilia Wilborg has it all--a loving husband, two beautiful daughters and a gorgeous home in the affluent Norwegian town of Sandefjord. And she works hard to keep it all together. Too hard. Because one mistake from her past could bring it all crashing down around her. Annika Lucasson lives a dark life with her abusive, drug-dealing boyfriend. She's lost everything one too many times and now she's got one last chance to save herself, thanks to Cecilia. Annika knows her secret--and just how much she's willing to do to make it all go away... When someone forgets to pick up their little boy at the local pool, Cecilia agrees to take him home, only to find an abandoned, empty house. It's the first step in the unraveling of her meticulously crafted life, as her and Annika's worlds collide...

Based on the true story of Operation Gunnerside--the Britain-sponsored mission that sent Norwegian commandos into the Nazi-occupied Telemark region of their country to destroy the enemy's nuclear weapons program. In February, 1943. Both the Allies and the Nazis are closing in on attempts to construct the decisive weapon of the war. Kurt Nordstrum, an engineer in Oslo, puts his life aside to take up arms against the Germans as part of the Norwegian resistance and escapes to England to transmit secret evidence of the Nazis's progress towards an atomic bomb at an isolated factory in Norway. There he joins a team of dedicated Norwegians in training to disrupt the Nazis' plans. Parachuted onto the most unforgiving terrain in Europe and braving the fiercest of mountain storms, Nordstrum and his team attempt the most daring raid of the war - targeting the heavily-guarded factory built on a shelf of rock thought to be impregnable. It's a mission even they know they likely will not survive. Months later Nordstrum is called upon again to do the impossible.

In this electrifying new thriller from the author of Police and the Snowman, Inspector Harry Hole hunts down a serial murderer who targets his victims on Tinder. The chief of police knows there's only one man for this case but Harry Hole is no longer with the force. Harry has promised that he will never go back: not after his last case which put the people closest to him in grave danger. But there's something about these murders. Now, despite his promises, Harry throws himself back into the hunt for a figure who haunts him, the monster who got away. Jo Nesbo has written other books with Harry as the main character and others that are set in Norway and Scandinavia. Check the catalog to find more.

Norwegians are very practical dressers. Everyone wear colorful knit hats, sweaters, and mittens are also popular especially for the children. Here are traditional Norwegian mitten patterns with some 400 years of Scandinavian knitting history thrown in. Instructions translated into English. Measurements and references adapted for American knitters.