An Armchair Traveller's History of Finland ART BOOKS 4 Inverse graphs 182

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a spectacularly talented writer

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he has consistently separated wisdom from whimsy

Gareth Russell moves through the rooms and the decades

An Armchair Traveller's History of Finland ART BOOKS 4 Inverse graphs 182In the American mind, Finland is often swept up in the general group of Nordic countries, little known and seldom gaining prominence on its own. But as Jonathan Clements shows in An Armchair Traveller's History of Finland, it has a long and fascinating history, one that offers oddities and excitements galore: from prehistoric herders to medieval lords, Christian martyrs and Viking kings, and the war heroes who held off the Soviet Union against long