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Travellers in Lapland
Older English accounts of journeys among the Sámi of Lapland, from Linnaeus's tour of 1732 to the travellers of the turn of the twentieth century, preserved in full as period witnesses.
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Lachesis Lapponica, Vol. I — LinnæusThe first of two volumes of Linnaeus’s journal of his 1732 journey from Upsal into Lapland, in the English translation published in London in 1811 by James Edward Smith from the Swedish manuscript; it runs from 12 May to 15 July 1732, through the Swedish provinces and Lapland to the Lapland alps and Norway.Lachesis Lapponica, Vol. II — LinnæusThe second and last volume of Linnaeus’s journal of his 1732 journey into Lapland, in the English translation published in London in 1811 by James Edward Smith: the return from Norway on 15 July through Lapland, Tornea and Finland to Upsal on 10 October, with the Brief Narrative Linnaeus wrote for the Royal Academy, an extract from Wahlenberg’s observations on the height of the Lapland alps, and an index to both volumes.The Land of the Long Night — Paul Du ChailluPaul Du Chaillu’s book for young readers, published in 1901, on a winter journey north through Sweden and Lapland by post-horse, reindeer sleigh and skis, living among nomadic Lapps through the weeks of sunless days, with their wolf and bear stories, then by brig to the Arctic coast of Norway and back south through the thaw.Through Arctic Lapland — Cutcliffe HyneCutcliffe Hyne’s 1898 account of a summer crossing of Arctic Lapland with Cecil Hayter, who drew its pictures, from Vardö on the Norwegian coast by fjord, canoe, lake, swamp and river to the Gulf of Bothnia, with chapters on the Orthodox Lapps’ midwinter immersion at Boris Gleb, the reindeer-herding Lapps, a failed attempt to see Lapp sorcery performed with the drum, and a short history of the Lapps.