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North of the desolate sea / Liv Balstad.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Balstad, Liv, 1915- author.
- Language:
- English
- Norwegian
- Subjects (All):
- Svalbard (Norway)--Description and travel.
- Svalbard (Norway).
- Travel.
- Svalbard.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 223 pages, 6 leaves of plates ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Souvenir Press, 1958
- Summary:
- First published in Norway as "Nord for det ode hav". Popular account of the author's years in Svalbard (1946-55) as the wife of sysselmann (governor).
- Contents:
- Meeting over hash
- Crisis in Ny-Alesund
- Office wedding
- Christmas and the King of Sassen
- Suddenly it's spring!
- Now we are three
- Horror of the huskies
- Fire!
- Ordeal at sea
- Royal visit
- Moving day
- Russian hospitality
- The mail flies in
- Death in the mountain
- I shoot a polar bear.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Nord for det Ode Hav.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel 8074: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel. With dust jacket.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Balstad, Liv, 1915- North of the desolate sea.
- OCLC:
- 2770355
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