With the Lapps in the High Mountains

By Emilie Demant Hatt, Barbara Sjoholm (translator),

Book cover of With the Lapps in the High Mountains: A Woman Among the Sami, 1907a 1908

Book description

With the Lapps in the High Mountains is an entrancing true account, a classic of travel literature, and a work that deserves wider recognition as an early contribution to ethnographic writing. Published in 1913 and available here in its first English translation, With the Lapps is the narrative of Emilie…

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1 author picked With the Lapps in the High Mountains as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

If you’re curious about the woman who collected the Sami folktales, you’ll want to read Emilie Demant Hatt’s story of living in a tent with a Sami family in a community in Northern Sweden. You’ll be fascinated by her grueling journey with a group of Sami herders and their hundreds of reindeer over the icy mountains in the spring of 1908 to find summer pastures on the Norwegian coast. I’ve long loved the adventure, humor, and visual feast in this book, first published in 1913, and was eager to translate it and share it with readers curious about the high…

From Barbara's list on the Sami and Sápmi.

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