Sleigh Riding in Scandinavia
DU CHAILLU, Paul Belloni.
The land of the midnight sun: summer and winter journeys through Sweden, Norway, Lapland, and northern Finland. With descriptions of the inner life of the people, their manners and customs, the primitive antiquities, etc. ... Third edition. London, John Murray, 1882.
2 vols, 8vo, pp. xvi, 441, [1], with folding frontispiece, 30 plates, and folding map in pocket at end (with a few small tears); xvi, 474, 32 (publisher’s list dated October 1881), with frontispiece and 20 plates; illustrations within the text; some foxing at beginning and end of each vol.; overall very good in original pictorial cloth, spines and upper covers lettered and decorated in gilt and black, brown endpapers; some wear to spine ends and corners, a few light marks to boards; inscriptions of ‘Arthur W. Chapman Calcutta March 1882’ and his armorial bookplate, bookplate of New College Oxford recording donation by Richard William Alan Onslow, New College ink stamps and cancel stamps to front endpapers.
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The land of the midnight sun: summer and winter journeys through Sweden, Norway, Lapland, and northern Finland. With descriptions of the inner life of the people, their manners and customs, the primitive antiquities, etc. ... Third edition.
Third edition. Du Chaillu is best known as an intrepid explorer of Africa. ‘In 1871 Du Chaillu, ever restless, sought to explore an area of the world new to him and in stark contrast to equatorial Africa. He went to Scandinavia and began crisscrossing the peninsula from southern Sweden to the northernmost parts of Lapland. For most of the next seven years he observed, recorded, and lived with Scandinavian natives of all sorts, often on most familiar terms. Three years later he published The land of the midnight sun ... In it he combines accounts of traveling by water, coach, and even reindeer-drawn sleigh with numerous little essays on set topics, including geological formations, social ceremonies, schools, local fishing industries, Lapp habitats and costumes, and several museums’ (ANB).
Provenance: presented to New College Oxford by the 5th Earl of Onslow (1876-1945), diplomat and politician.