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UNDER the above striking title we have an account of the Peninsula of Scandinavia and of the life of its people, based on a series of journeys made at different times, from 1871 to 1878, by Mr. Paul Du Chaillu. It is pleasant to meet with an author, already so well known for his travels in Equatorial Africa on new ground, and to find that his journeyings on virgin soil and among wild and savage races have not unfitted him for the study of the physical characteristics of an old country, and of the manners and customs of its inhabitants. The reader of these two handsome and well-illustrated volumes may form some notion of the extent of ground traversed during a five-years' sojourn, from the tracings of the author's routes on the map appended to the first volume. Not only was the country travelled over from north to south and from east to west, but the coast-line from Haparanda to the extreme north-eastern point of Norway, a distance of 3200 miles, was observed, the greater part of it both in winter and in summer, and over 3000 miles of fjords were sailed along. The illustrations are most frequently from photographs, but those representing Lapland winter scenes are the work of a Swedish artist.
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The Land of the Midnight Sun 1 . Nature 25, 59–61 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/025059b0
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