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The "ghosts" of the title are several English travelers whose footsteps the author follows as he hikes through the mountains in Norway. Watkins does a good job of interweaving Viking myth with present-day reality, and his assessment of the national character struck me as fairly accurate (at least from my own short travels in Norway and encounters with Norwegians here in the US).
There's a nice meditative quality to this book that I suspect might make some impatient but which I found grand and el ...more
There's a nice meditative quality to this book that I suspect might make some impatient but which I found grand and el ...more
