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What draws a traveler from Sweden’s long summer daylight into the deep cold of Lapland?
In Northern Travel, American poet and journalist Bayard Taylor journeys through Sweden, Denmark and Lapland. He brings a reporter’s curiosity to towns, landscapes, food and manners, gathering scenes of the far north in summer and winter. His eye stays alert to what makes each place feel distinct.
Sweden offers Stockholm, water, islands and long northern daylight. The winter journey toward Lapland takes Taylor away from town comforts and into deep cold. Denmark brings a gentler mood, with Copenhagen among its scenes. Through these changing places and seasons, his good humor makes him an inviting companion.
What you’ll discover
- Sweden in summer Explore towns, water and islands through Taylor’s vivid impressions of the warm northern season.
- Cold beyond town comforts Follow the journey toward Lapland, where deep winter tests a curious traveler’s willingness to press on.
- A gentler Danish landscape Discover Denmark and Copenhagen as the mood shifts from northern snow and silence.
- A poet’s reporting eye Notice how Taylor turns weather, food and manners into concrete pictures of unfamiliar places.
- Room to wander Settle into an easy pace that gives landscapes and everyday observations space to hold your attention.
Who will love it
Readers who love journeys to far places, polar light, frozen landscapes, old sleds and sailing steamers, and the small human scenes of inns, hosts and strangers. Anyone curious about Scandinavia in the 1850s will find a lively guide.
What’s inside
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- A winter crossing to Stockholm
- Learning to travel by post
- Arctic cold and the great storm
- Northern lights and the Finnish border
- Crossing the Arctic Circle by sled
- Reindeer, Lapps and a day without sun
- The return and the cost of cold
- Stockholm, Dalecarlia and Swedish manners
- Norway by carriole, coast and fjord
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Reisen im Norden
by Bayard Taylor · 1857
Two Americans race by sled and reindeer across frozen Lapland, where their beards freeze solid and the sun never rises.
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Northern Travel is the account of a journey through Sweden, Lapland, Norway and Denmark, written by the American traveler Bayard Taylor and published after he returned home from ten months in the North in 1856 and 1857. Taylor had already crossed Egypt, India and other warm lands, and he wanted to see the opposite extreme: the Arctic winter and then the midnight sun of summer.
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A winter crossing to Stockholm
The journey begins on the first of December 1856, when Taylor and Braisted board the small Swedish steamer Carl Johan at Lübeck. The cabin is stacked with wool and butter, and the two passengers are shown to a narrow stateroom the crew calls a hut. A cheerful Polish passenger, said to have been condemned to death once and to have invented cheap gas, keeps the table amused.
The Baltic is cold and stormy, and the overloaded ship feels its way through fog and snow to Ystad. A cabin boy is thrown into the icy water by a lurch and cannot be saved, and the sad event hangs over the voyage. The ship cannot reach Stockholm because ice blocks the harbor, so it lands at little Dalarö.
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What is Northern Travel by Bayard Taylor about?
It tells of the author's journey through Sweden, Lapland, Denmark and Norway in 1856 and 1857, from a winter crossing by sled and reindeer to a summer voyage along the Arctic coast to see the midnight sun.
Who is Braisted in Northern Travel?
Braisted is Taylor's companion on the winter journey, a former sailor. He shares the sleds, the cold and the jokes, sings hymns to stay awake, and takes charge when postillions turn lazy.
Is Northern Travel a true story and when was it written?
Yes, it is a true travel account of a journey made in 1856 and 1857, written by the American author soon afterward, with dated stops, real people and places, and daily temperature records.
The author
Bayard Taylor
1825–1878 · American poet and travel writer
Bayard Taylor was an American poet, novelist, and travel writer. He was born in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, in 1825. He published Views Afoot in 1846 and Northern Travel in 1857. He lived in the United States and served as a diplomat in Germany, where he died in Berlin in 1878.
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