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Tony Cond, a retired Royal Canadian Navy Marine Systems Engineer and lifelong sailor, shares a collection of personal stories ...
Along Norway’s coastline, the rhythm of life slows in summer — shaped by the good weather and long hours of daylight.
English farmer James Rebanks is famous for his books about restoring the health of his Lake Country farm (“ Pastoral Song,” “ ...
Mr. Wood noted that “tedium, in Solstad’s work, achieves a kind of hallucinatory power” with long descriptions of, among other things, the Norwegian hydroelectricity company.
Here are examples of the books, valuable sources of Norwegian family history information, in the Arne G. Brekke Bygdebøk Collection in the UND Special Collections department at the Chester Fritz ...
Hidden amongst the groundbreaking sitar and maturing lyricism of the Beatles’ 1965 track “Norwegian Wood” are surprisingly sordid and violent details of an extramarital affair that turned ...
Snaking through the forests that fringe the edge of Lake Fyresvatn, in Norway ’s Hamaren Activity Park, this one-kilometre-long wooden elevated walkway is a spectacular and sympathetic addition to the ...
The book All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono features an interview with John and Yoko from 1980. In it, John was asked about “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has ...
‘Norwegian Wood’ is one of his least “magical” books, yet it still oozes with that most tricksy and mysterious of human elements: memory. It’s also romantic and very, very sad.
Some of the world's most celebrated authors have written manuscripts that won't be published for a century – why? Richard Fisher visits the Future Library in Oslo to find out.