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100	1		_aBuch, Leopold von, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aTravels through Norway and Lapland during the Years 1806, 1807, and 1808 / _cLeopold von Buch, Translated by John Black, Edited by Robert Jameson.
246	3		_aTravels through Norway & Lapland during the Years 1806, 1807, & 1808
264		1	_aPlace of publication not identified : _bpublisher not identified, _c1813.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press
300			_a1 online resource (482 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aCambridge library collection. Earth Science
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
520			_aIn Travels Through Norway and Lapland, Leopold von Buch (1774-1853), a German geologist and palaeontologist, recounts his expedition to Scandinavia in 1806-1808. This book, originally published in Berlin in 1810, and in this English translation in 1813, describes these large, sparsely populated regions at the turn of the nineteenth century. The translator's preface provides an important geo-political backdrop - the possibility of war in Norway and the machinations of Sweden, Russia and Great Britain over the future of this territory. Von Buch's observations, however, are firmly engaged with the scientific. He writes that his motivation for the expedition was to find out how the harsh climate influenced the land, and he records detailed information about the weather and the region's mineralogy and geological structure. He also describes the local population, providing a wide-ranging account of life in the remote reaches of Northern Europe.
700	1		_aBlack, John, _etranslator.
700	1		_aJameson, Robert, _eeditor.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781108028813
830		0	_aCambridge library collection. _pEarth Science.
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511994982
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