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This is described as the ultimate informative travel and reference book and voyage guide for the Hurtigruten (Norwegian Coastal Steamer) journey along the rugged and beautiful Norwegian coast and fjords between Bergen and Kirkenes. This book describes what is seen from the ship, hour-by-hour, and day-by-day. In addition to time references from the last port of call, the book also has GPS positions for interesting landmarks to assist the passenger in keeping up with the progress of the journey. Each port of call is described in detail, and for the major cities, recommended city walks are described. Islands, towns, mountains and fjords are described as they are today, as well as in their historical, cultural and nature contexts. More than 500 large and small photos, and several hundred maps illustrate the text. Special chapters include: - The Norwegian coast - the historical highway. - Communication along the coast in former times. - Norway from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages. - The Gulf Stream. - The Napoleonic Wars. - The Storegga Slide. - The fishermen's rules of what to do and don't do in a boat. - The Vikings. - Arctic Circle - Midnight Sun - the "Dark Period". - Sea Eagles. - Maelstrom. - Northern Lights / Aurora Borealis. - Ancient Norse Gods. - Bird nesting cliffs in Norway. - The Barents Sea. - Convoys in the Second World War and the fate of the Tirpitz and Scharnhorst battleships. - The burning of Finnmark in 1944. - The Pomor Trade. - The Sami. - Melkøya and the Snøhvit oil fields. - Alta Rock Carvings. - Hurtigruten Museum and MS Finnmarken. - The history of the Hurtigruten Norwegian Coastal Steamer. - Egg and down gathering. - The Dutch Trade period. - Navigational Beacon System. - Ships in the Hurtigruten Fleet. - Official flag days in Norway. - Relative temperatures and wind chill factor. The 11 day journey includes Bergen, the Geiranger fjord (summer season), the Romsdal area, Trondheim, the Lofoten islands, Tromsø, Finnmark and Kirkenes, along with the 34 large and small ports of call. Each county is described separately. This book has been praised by both the major Norwegian national television channels (NRK and TV2), as being authoritative and rich in detail. Many Norwegian newspapers and magazines have also praised it. The book is soft covered in laminated paperback so that is can be easily read both aboard in a deck chair, and at home in your lap or on a table. Reference flaps doubling as bookmarks are included with the front and back covers, for the readers' convenience. The "Hurtigruten Detailed 11-day voyage guide" has since publishing also been used also by the Hurtigruten company for it's employees.
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Ms. Berit Liland (born in Bergen, Norway, in 1943) is a former Radio Telegraphy Officer with the Norwegian Merchant Navy, who later followed a maritime career ashore. Retired, she travelled as a passenger with the Hurtigruten ships several times and was impressed by the mountains and fjords of the coast, but felt that there was much more to be learned about what she could see from the ship. After retirement, she spent four years gathering current and historical information about the nature, culture, history and legends of the Hurtigruten journey, and has since found a large audience in former, current and future Hurtigruten travellers, as well as those interested in the coastal culture of Norway and western Scandinavia. Ms. Liland has also published the Hurtigruten book in Norwegian and German language. The English edition is translated by Mr. Andy Lomax, who resides in Troms, Norway, and by Mr. Øyvind Martinsen.
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
My wife and I have done the Norwegian Coastal Voyage round trip (Bergen-Kirkenes-Bergen) twelve times, and are booked for our thirteenth. We very much we'd had the benefit of this excellent book for our previous voyages, and are looking forward to taking it along next time. Quite frankly the voyage itself stands well on its own merits. What this book does is to add a number of extra dimensions, and is an invaluable aide to understanding more about the scenery, the history and the culture. If you read it before a voyage, it'll help you get the most out of the trip; if you read it after a voyage, it'll bring back beautiful memories.
This book is a labour of love, and to those of us - and there are many from all over the world - for whom the Norwegian Coastal Voyage is a wonderful (and repeatable) experience, it is essential. If I were allowed only two books as a desert island castaway, Berit Liland's book would be one of them.
Buy the book, and take it - along with binoculars and camera - on the voyage.
This book is a labour of love, and to those of us - and there are many from all over the world - for whom the Norwegian Coastal Voyage is a wonderful (and repeatable) experience, it is essential. If I were allowed only two books as a desert island castaway, Berit Liland's book would be one of them.
Buy the book, and take it - along with binoculars and camera - on the voyage.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Hurtigruten - Detailed 11 Day Voyage Guide: Nature, Culture, History, Legends: 1 (Purchased on 06/04/2009)
16 May 2009
Format:Paperback
A brilliantly indepth look at the 11 day Norwegian trip on the Hurtergruten Coastal Steamers. To buy on the vessel is around £40 and this second hand book was around half the cost and in excellent condition. The book provides an almost minute by minute guide to what you are passing( and believe me there are thousands of islands) and the history etc of Norway.The vessel provides you with a small paperback version but this book really gets to grips with Norway.And Yes! I am going to keep it!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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If you are doing the voyage this gives so much information about the places you are seeing. Sometimes almost too much but there is something for everyone from ancient legend to modern facts.
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