BOUNDLESS FORESTS AND ROARING WINDS
BROOKE, Arthur de Capell, Sir.
Travels through Sweden, Norway, and Finmark, to the North Cape ... Second edition.
London, printed for J. Rodwell, 1831.
4to, pp. xvi, [2], 433, [1]; with lithographed frontispiece, 21 plates (2 coloured), and 11 vignettes in the text; foxing to frontispiece and plates; overall a very good copy, uncut, in contemporary quarter cloth over drab boards, paper spine label; rebacked with remains of spine laid down, a few small scuffs; pencil signature of John Dellwyn to front endpaper, embossed blind stamp of Radnorshire County Library to title.
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Travels through Sweden, Norway, and Finmark, to the North Cape ... Second edition.
Second edition (first 1823) of this account of the Scandinavian travels undertaken by Brooke (1791–1858) in 1820, illustrated with attractive lithographs, several after drawings by the author.
‘A person ... will find in the North much to gratify his curiosity, and interest his feelings. If his eye be tired of the charming repetition of scenery in the southern parts of Sweden ... he will find ample variety amid the Norwegian mountains, where nothing is wanting to combine the romantic with the beautiful. If he pursue his course along the wild rocks of the western main ... he will view with mingled admiration and astonishment those giant features of creation, around the heads of which ... the whirlwind of the North howls in concert with the roaring billows below. Should he turn his steps to the boundless forests and wastes of Lapland ... he will in every direction meet with scenery worthy of his pencil, and subjects that cannot fail to arrest his contemplation’ (pp. vi–vii). Upon graduating from Magdalen College, Oxford, Brooke spent much time in foreign travel. He was an original member of the Travellers’ Club, founder and president of the Raleigh Club, and a fellow of both the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Society, equally ‘at ease in a Finnish sauna or treating his Raleigh Club friends to dine on reindeer’ (ODNB).
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