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With the Lapps in the High Mountains
Emilie Demant Hatt
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Description for With the Lapps in the High Mountains
Paperback. Originally published in Sweden as Med lapperne i hojfjeldet, copyright 1913. Translator(s): Sjoholm, Barbara. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
With the Lapps in the High Mountains is an entrancing true account, a classic of travel literature, and a work that deserves wider recognition as an early contribution to ethnographic writing. Published in 1913 and available here in its first English translation, With the Lapps is the narrative of Emilie Demant Hatt's nine-month stay in the tent of a Sami family in northern Sweden in 1907-8 and her participation in a dramatic reindeer migration over snow-packed mountains to Norway with another Sami community in 1908. A single woman in her thirties, Demant Hatt immersed herself in the Sami language and ... Read more
With the Lapps in the High Mountains is an entrancing true account, a classic of travel literature, and a work that deserves wider recognition as an early contribution to ethnographic writing. Published in 1913 and available here in its first English translation, With the Lapps is the narrative of Emilie Demant Hatt's nine-month stay in the tent of a Sami family in northern Sweden in 1907-8 and her participation in a dramatic reindeer migration over snow-packed mountains to Norway with another Sami community in 1908. A single woman in her thirties, Demant Hatt immersed herself in the Sami language and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299292348
SKU
V9780299292348
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About Emilie Demant Hatt
Emilie Demant Hatt (1873-1958) became a prominent artist in Denmark. She helped Johan Turi write and publish his book, An Account of the Sami, which appeared in 1910 in an innovative bilingual Sami/Danish edition. Barbara Sjoholm is an award-winning novelist, frequent translator of Danish and Norwegian fiction and nonfiction, and cofounder of the small literary publisher Seal Press. ... Read more
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