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These 5 items are available as a set for $85 including
shipping, 15% off the retail price (Item EXNOR10A). Free shipping on any additional books ordered.

Insight Guides
Insight Guide Norway
2008, PAPER, 391 PAGES, $23.95
A profusely illustrated overview of Norway, featuring
concise essays on natural history, politics and culture,
hundreds of photos and maps, and some limited practical information. (Item NOR03)

John Haywood
Penguin Historical Atlas of the Vikings
1995, PAPER, 144 PAGES, $20.00
The history of the Vikings told through a series of innovative maps and excellent photographs. This book traces the route of the 9th-century Viking merchants and explorers throughout Europe and on to the New World.
(Item VIK02)

David Howarth, Stephen Ambrose (Introduction)
We Die Alone, A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance
2007, PAPER, 208 PAGES, $16.95
This 1955 account of courage, determination and valor in
Nazi-occupied Norway follows Jan Baalrud's extraordinary
escape across the Lyngen Alps. (Item NOR14)

Peter Asbjornsen
Norwegian Folk Tales
1982, PAPER, 188 PAGES, $15.95
This rich collection of stories, interpreted by a leading
scholar on ancient traditions and tales, will delight both
adults and children. (Item NOR06)

Freytag & Berndt
Norway Map
MAP, $14.95
A detailed map at a scale of 1:600,000. (Item NOR05)

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Deanna Swaney
Lonely Planet Norway
2008, PAPER, 452 PAGES, $21.99
With maps, practical details and information on sightseeing. (Item NOR25)

ITMB
Oslo/Bergen Map
2006, MAP, $8.95
A walking map of Oslo and Bergen at a scale of 1:10,000. (Item NOR44)

Eyewitness Guides
Eyewitness Guide Norway
2010, PAPER, 304 PAGES, $25.00
This handsome, illustrated guide covers the nature, culture, history and attractions of Norway. (Item NOR29)

Linda March
Culture Smart! Norway
2005, PAPER, 168 PAGES, $13.15
A concise, no-nonsense guide to local customs, etiquette and culture with a short overview of the land and people along with practical travel advice. (Item NOR43)

Else Roesdahl
The Vikings
1999, PAPER, 368 PAGES, $17.00
This well-written look at Norse civilization goes beyond
the limited view of the ruthless Viking invaders, creating a full picture of the vibrant, artistic, agricultural and exploratory culture (Item VIK09)

Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin
Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
2005, PAPER, 129 PAGES, $16.95
Rich in detail of people and place, groundbreaking feminist  Wollstonecraft records her observations of a late 18th-century journey through Scandinavia in this small masterpiece. (Item SCN04)

Kevin Crossley-Holland
The Norse Myths
1981, PAPER, 320 PAGES, $17.95
This classic collection includes 32 tales of Nordic gods,
goddesses and heroes. With an overview of the Norse
world, cosmology and gods. (Item SCN38)

T.K Derry
A History of Scandinavia: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland
2000, PAPER, 447 PAGES, $25.00
Scandinavia from prehistory to the present with chapters
on the Viking and Lutheran kingdoms, medieval times,
monarchies, the World Wars and modern period, emphasizing the common cultural, political and social backgrounds. (Item SCN03)

Yves Cohat
The Vikings, Lords of the Seas
1992, PAPER, 146 PAGES, $12.95
An indispensable reference that fits in your pocket, this
slim volume is packed with maps, archival photographs,
and illustrations. It tells of the Norse homeland, discoveries and settlements, and also features a useful chronology and excerpts from the Viking Sagas. Part of the "Discoveries" series. (Item VIK01)

Per Petterson
Out Stealing Horses
2008, PAPER, 258 PAGES, $14.00
In this luminous novel of memory, childhood and loss in
rural Norway, elderly narrator Trond Sander looks back
on his life and the chain of events that began one fateful summer day in 1948. (Item NOR66)

Paul Watkins
The Fellowship of Ghosts, Travels in the Land of Midnight Sun
2006, PAPER, 233 PAGES, $16.00
Novelist Watkins tries his hand at travel, interweaving a
memoir of his own experiences in Norway with those of
early eccentric visitors. His solo wanderings also take into account the beautiful Norwegian countryside, with vivid descriptions of dramatic cliffs and expansive snowfields. (Item NOR35)

Knut Hamsun, Sverre Lyngstad (Translator)
Mysteries
2001, PAPER, 352 PAGES, $15.00
An odd character settles in a small Norwegian village and charms the locals. First published in 1890, this book is an insightful look at life in Norway, and is our favorite of Hamsun's many novels. (Item NOR08)

P.J. Capelotti (Editor)
The Svalbard Archipelago
2000, PAPER, 180 PAGES, $49.95
A reprint of a WWII-era report on Spitsbergen by U.S.
intelligence, covering the geography, history and geopolitics of the archipelago. With 63 photographs, maps, glossary, illustrations, bibliography, appendices, and an index. (Item ARC91)

Eric Dregni
In Cod We Trust: Living the Norwegian Dream
2008, HARD COVER, $22.95
A Minnesotan of Norwegian extraction, Dregni writes
entertainingly of Norwegian culture and the immigrant
experience in this delightful account of a year living with
his wife and infant son in Trondheim on a Fulbright
scholarship. (Item NOR68)

Thomas Gallagher
Assault in Norway
2010, PAPER, 234 PAGES, $18.95
A small team of Norwegian ski commandos on a mission
to destroy the Vemork heavy water plant – and stop the
Germans from getting the atomic bomb. A gripping true
story of bravery and endurance against all odds, featuring hair-raising escapades – some of which are so outrageous they seem lifted from an action novel. (Item NOR62)

Knut Hamsun
Growth of the Soil
2007, PAPER, 352 PAGES, $14.00
The epic tale of a homesteader in the mountainous Norwegian interior, which helped win Hamsun a Nobel Prize in 1920. (Item NOR36)

Sigrid Undset, Tina Nunnally (Translator)
Kristin Lavransdatter: The Wreath, The Wife, The Cross
2005, PAPER, 1184 PAGES, $25.00
A masterful historical epic by the Nobel Prize-winning
author, first published in 1927. This omnibus edition follows the life of one woman from birth to death in devoutly Catholic 14th-century Norway. A cornerstone of
Scandinavian literature, the trilogy is a powerful introduction to the medieval society. (Item NOR40)