Feats on the Fiord: A Tale of Norway (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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It is difficult to say whether these fiords are the most beautiful in summer or in winter. In summer, they glitter with golden sunshine; and purple and green shadows from the mountain and forest lie on them; and these may be more lovely than the faint light of the winter noons of those latitudes, and the snowy pictures of frozen peaks which then show them selves on the surface: but before the day is half over, out come the stars,-the glorious stars which shine like nothing that we have ever seen. There, the planets cast a faint shadow, as the young moon does with us; and these planets, and the constellations of the sky, as they silently glide over from peak to peak of these rocky passes, are imaged on the waters so clearly that the fisherman, as he unmoors his boat for his evening task, feels as if he were about to shoot forth his vessel into another heaven, and to cleave his way among the stars.
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Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) authored Society in America (1837) and Retrospect of Western Travel (1838), which are considered to be major analyses of American life.
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- Publication date2024
- ISBN 10 145101242X
- ISBN 13 9781451012422
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages210
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