The Ultimate Cruise Passenger's Guide - NORWAY

Everything you need to know about Norway and its ports.The first in the series, this guide book is a comprehensive, richly illustrated study of Norway, its ports, its people, history and culture. In a series of in-depth articles, the author first describes how the topography of Norway has contributed to the character and culture of its population. He then goes on to examine the Resistance Movement during the Second World War, the lifestyle of hardships of Sami reindeer herders of Lapland and life in Svalbard, including the Russian settlements of Barentsburg and Pyramiden. Hall next uses a personal voyage on the most authentic Viking trading ship ever built as a vehicle to explore and explain the Viking expansion westwards to Iceland, Greenland and North America. Finally, he reveals how a Norwegian team created a highly successful television series about a Norwegian teenage girl who became a surrogate mother to a seal pup. The award-winning series sold to some 68 countries. Having given the reader a thorough insight into what makes the Norwegian people tick, Hall then turns his journalistic spotlight on each of the cruise ports in turn from Oslo and Stavanger in the south to Alta and Kirkenes in the far north, pointing out the main attractions at each port.