Chambers's Repository of Instructive and Amusing Tracts Classic Reprint
Language: English
Published by Forgotten Books, 2019
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- Title
- Chambers's Repository of Instructive and Amusing Tracts Classic Reprint
- Author
- Unknown Author
- Publisher
- Forgotten Books
- Publication year
- 2019
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- PAP
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1331611717
- ISBN 13
- 9781331611714
- Item weight
- 438 grams
Explore the distant north and the people who shaped its early history —a thoughtfully chosen slice from Chambers's Repository of Instructive and Amusing Tracts that blends travel narrative with historical insight.
This edition brings together lively excerpts on Lapland, the Lappps, and the Finns, plus companion pieces that survey Barbary slavery, West African travel, and Sweden’s Christina the Queen. Clear, accessible prose invites readers to consider how past civilizations met the land and its peoples.
Two compact sections offer a window into how nineteenth‑century writers approached culture, language, and long‑gone eras. You’ll encounter careful notes on place, ethnography, and the shifting lines of borders and identity, all framed by a curiosity about how people lived, traded, and believed.• A vivid look at Lapland and its indigenous Lapps, their origins, names, and social shifts, with careful context about languages and geography.
• Discussions of Finns, Swedes, and Norse contact, and how myths mirror historical change in northern Europe.
• Anglophone travel writing from the era, including observations of African coast settlements, slavery, and maritime journeys.
• Short portraits of historical figures and events, including Christina, Queen of Sweden, and reflections on power, belief, and policy.
Ideal for readers of 19th‑century travel writing, Nordic history, and the study of how early explorers and historians framed distant lands.
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