Travels through Norway and Lapland during the Years 1806, 180... - 9781108028813

Travels through Norway and Lapland during the Years 1806, 1807, and 1808Author(s): Leopold von Buch, John Black, Robert Jameson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108028813, 978-1108028813\nSynopsis\nIn Travels Through Norway and Lapland, Leopold von Buch [tel], a German geologist and palaeontologist, recounts his expedition to Scandinavia in [tel]. This book, originally published in Berlin in 1810, and in this English translation in 1813, describes these large, sparsely populated regions at the turn of the nineteenth century. The translator's preface provides an important geo-political backdrop the possibility of war in Norway and the machinations of Sweden, Russia and Great Britain over the future of this territory. Von Buch's observations, however, are firmly engaged with the scientific. He writes that his motivation for the expedition was to find out how the harsh climate influenced the lan.