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HIB165

Against the Ice

The harrowing, amazing, and often amusing personal account of two mismatched Arctic explorers who banded together to keep themselves sane on an historic expedition gone horribly wrong Ejnar Mikkelsen was devoted to Arctic exploration. In 1910 he decided to search for the diaries of the ill-fated Mylius-Erichsen expedition, which had set out to prove that Robert Peary’s outline of the East Greenland coast was a myth, erroneous and presumably self-serving. Iver Iversen was a mechanic who joined Mi

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Arctic Adventure My Life in the Frozen North

Shortly after his death in 1957, The New York Times obituary of Peter Freuchen noted that "except for Richard E. Byrd, and despite his foreign beginnings, Freuchen was perhaps better known to more people in the United States than any other explorer of our time." During his lifetime Freuchen's remarkable adventures, related in his books, magazine articles, and films, made him a legend. In 1910, Freuchen and his friend and business partner, Knud Rasmussen, the renowned polar explorer, founded Thul

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HIB338

Assault in Norway

Subtitle: The Amazing WWII Story of the Commandos Who Sabotaged the Nazi Nuclear Program. This is the gripping account of a commando raid into occupied Norway in 1942. Target: the seemingly impregnable factory-fortress where material crucial to Nazi nuclear experimentation was manufactured and stored. Basing his narrative in large part on interviews with the commandos themselves, Thomas Gallagher here recounts in vivid detail the planning and execution of Operation Gunnerside. This book will app

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Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

The definitive history of the Vikings -- from arts and culture to politics and cosmology -- by a distinguished archaeologist with decades of expertise The Viking Age -- from 750 to 1050 -- saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the wider world. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they ranged from eastern North America to the Asian steppe. This is a deeply researched history that completely reimagines the way the Vikings lived and their impact on the world. F

$22.99

HIB3

Courage & Defiance: Stories of Spies, Saboteurs, & Survivors in World War II Denmark

Critically acclaimed Sibert Honor author Deborah Hopkinson brings to bold life the remarkable story of the Danish resistance and rescue of over 7,000 Jews during WWII. When the Nazis invaded Denmark on Tuesday, April 9, 1940, the people of this tiny country to the north of Germany awoke to a devastating surprise. The government of Denmark surrendered quietly, and the Danes were ordered to go about their daily lives as if nothing had changed. But everything had changed. Award-winning author Debor

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Embracing Two Worlds

The experiences of the Muller family and the Kimballton community emerge out of the recollections of a variety of individuals. Some are members of the Muller family, some are current or former residents of Kimballton, and some are scholars interested in h

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HIB155

From Lapland to Sápmi

A cultural history of Sápmi and the Nordic countries as told through objects and artifacts Material objects—things made, used, and treasured—tell the story of a people and place. So it is for the Indigenous Sámi living in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, whose story unfolds across borders and centuries, in museums and private collections. The objects created by the Sámi for daily and ceremonial use were purchased and taken by Scandinavians and foreign travelers in Lapland from the seventeent

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Hitler's Savage Canary

After Adolf Hitler made plans to create a “model protectorate” out of Denmark, Winston Churchill predicted that the nation would become the Führer’s tame canary. Isolated from the Allies and fueled only by a sense of human decency and national pride, the Danes created an extraordinary resistance movement that proved a relentless thorn in the side of the Nazis. By 1945, they had published twenty-six million issues of illegal newspapers. They set up radio guides for Allied aircraft on the coasts a

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How the Other Half Lives

Jacob Riis was one of the very few men who photographed the slums of New York at the turn of the twentieth century, when as many as 300,000 people per square mile were crowded into the tenements of New York's Lower East Side. The filth and degradation made the area a hell for the immigrants forced to live there. Riis was one of those immigrants, and, after years of abject poverty, when he became a police reporter for the New York Tribune, he exposed the shameful conditions of life with which he

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HIB331

Last Light Over Oslo: A Novel

A Paperback Original A gripping historical novel set in Norway and Sweden in 1940, based on true events, which follows one of the first female US Ministers, Daisy Harriman, and her niece as the two are unexpectedly caught up in the German invasion of Norway. Cleo Jaffray was an American. A war in Europe had nothing to do with her. She told herself that right up until the man she loved went missing in Poland and Cleo was forced to turn to the only person who might be able to help—her aunt Daisy,

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Number the Stars

Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend, Ellen rosen, often think about the way life was before the war. It's now 1943, and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi soldiers marching in their town. The Nazis

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Sledge Patrol

Author: David Howarth. A World War II Epic of Escape, Survival, and Victory. Newly reissued in June 2008, Sledge Patrol is Howarth's account of Danish and Norwegian hunters who patrolled 500 miles of Greenland coastline where they battled Nazi soldiers, taking desperate measures in the dark days of World War II. Paperback.

$19.95

Tante Johanne–1887-1910 Letters of a Denmark Immigrant Family

Correspondence involving a spiritually and culturally uprooted Danish immigrant woman of the nineteenth century provides an insight into how difficult it was for her to see her family become Americanized. The book is an interesting acount of rural Iowa li

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Teenage Immigrant

Anne Ipsen's latest memoir describes a six year period starting in 1946 with the departure of Anne and her parents from Denmark, first as visitors to the USA, then in 1948 as immigrants. It is a sequel to A Child's Tapestry of War, the story of the author's childhood during the World War II occupation of Denmark by Nazi Germany. Anne's parents are not typical immigrants fleeing from oppression but part of the post-war European Brain Drain. Both parents speak fluent English and Dr. Ipsen is a med

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The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Vikings

Viking marauders struck fear into the hearts of ninth-century European peasants, monks and nobles alike for two centuries, but the Vikings were more than seaborne terrorists. This atlas illustrates their influence extending from the Holy Land to Newfoundland, as explorers, settlers, craftsmen and hired mercenaries. Show More Show Less

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The Return of Odin

A controversial examination of the influence and presence of the Norse god Odin in contemporary history and culture

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The Viking Heart: How Scandinavians Conquered the World

From a New York Times best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist, a sweeping epic of how the Vikings and their descendants have shaped history and America Scandinavia has always been a world apart. For millennia Norwegians, Danes, Finns, and Swedes lived a remote and rugged existence among the fjords and peaks of the land of the midnight sun. But when they finally left their homeland in search of opportunity, these wanderers—including the most famous, the Vikings—would reshape Europe and

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The Vikings A History by Robert Ferguson

Summary of The Vikings Reviews for The Vikings An Excerpt from The Vikings A comprehensive and thrilling history, based on the latest scholarship, offers the definitive portrait of the Vikings Raiders and traders, settlers and craftsmen, the medieval Scandinavians who have become familiar to history as Vikings never lose their capacity to fascinate, from their ingeniously designed longboats to their stormy pantheon of gods and goddesses. Robert Ferguson is a sure guide across what he calls "the

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Vagrant Viking: My life and adventures

Famous Danish explorer Peter Freuchen (1886“1957) lived an epic life of adventures ranging from exploring the frozen Arctic to fighting the German war machine of World War II. In Vagrant Viking he chronicles his exploits from Copenhagen to Siberia to Hollywood. Together with fellow polar explorer Knud Rasmussen, Freuchen established the Greenland trading station of Thule, and spent many years living amongst the indigenous people of the region. During World War II Freuchen served in occupied Denm

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Who Was Leif Erikson?

The son of an important Viking chieftain named Erik the Red A sailor and explorer from Greenland The first European to set foot on North America Hold on to your Viking helmets as you learn about the first known European to set foot on North America! Leif Erikson was born to be an explorer. His father, Erik the Red, had established the first European settlement in present-day Greenland, and although he didn’t yet know it, Leif was destined to embark on an adventure of his own. The wise and striki

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HIB345

Winter Fortress

A New York Times Bestseller now available in paperback! From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Hunting Eichmann and The Perfect Mile, an epic adventure and spy story about the greatest act of sabotage in all of World War II.. It’s 1942 and the Nazis are racing to be the first to build a weapon unlike any known before. They have the physicists, they have the uranium, and now all their plans depend on amassing a single ingredient: heavy water, which is produced in Norway’s Vemo

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Words of Wisdom from the Vikings Softcover

More than a thousand years have passed since writing of the Hávámál, the original title for this collection of poetic proverbs. Said to be given by Odin, Father of the Norse Gods, these words paint a clear picture of the heroic ethics, home life and warrior code of the Viking Period. By: Joanne Asala, paperback, 63 Pages.

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