Author: Ernest Young

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-06-08

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 9780282270438

Excerpt from Finland: The Land of a Thousand Lakes I have quoted largely from the national epic the Kate vata, used illustrations by Finnish artists and extracts from Finnish authors, all with the idea of putting the reader in as close a touch as possible with the atmosphere of a singularly interesting country. I am much indebted to the publishers of Finland in the Nineteenth Century for permission to make whatever use I pleased of that valuable but generally inaccessible volume. The quotations from the K elevate are, unless otherwise indicated, from Mr. Kirby's translation, published in Dent's Everyman Library, and are here reproduced by the courtesy and kindness of the author and publishers. For some of the facts in the account of a Finnish wedding I am indebted to the proprietors of The Wide World Magazine, who allowed me to make use of them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.