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100 1 $aFerguson, Robert,$d1948-$eauthor.
245 10 $aScandinavians :$bin search of the soul of the north /$cRobert Ferguson.
264 1 $aLondon :$bHead of Zeus,$c2016.
264 4 $c©2016
300 $axxiii, 455 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c23 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 431-438) and index.
520 $aThe Scandinavians are regarded as Europe's most tolerant and peace-loving people. So how was it that one of the worst acts of political terror ever witnessed on this continent was committed by a Norwegian, against his fellow countrymen? Scandinavia is the epitome of cool: we fill our homes with cheap but stylish Nordic furniture; we envy their health-giving outdoor lifestyle; we glut ourselves on their crime fiction; even their strangely attractive melancholia seems to express a stoic, common-sensical acceptance of life's many vicissitudes. But how valid is this outsider's view of Scandinavia, and how accurate our picture of life in Scandinavia today? Robert Ferguson digs down through two millennia of history to tell stories of extraordinary events, people and objects, from Norwegian Death Metal to Vidkun Quisling, from Agnetha Fa?ltskog to Greta Garbo, from Lurpak butter to the Old Norse rune stones, that richly illuminate our understanding of modern Scandinavia, its society, politics, culture and temperament.
650 0 $aScandinavians.
650 0 $aNational characteristics, Scandinavian.
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