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THE HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE The rigorous climate, the landscape, the alternation of bright nights and days without light have confronted the inhabitants for centuries with what Toynbee would call a singular challenge. It is fascinating to study how these men have accepted the challenge and have...

TRANSLATOR'S FOREWORD "Seven Brothers", for three quarters of a century the most widely circulated book in Finland next to the Bible, can be read as a simple tale of adventure and humour, as it is read and enjoyed by Finns of all ages who ask of a book solely that it shall engross and entertain...

1 o the foreigner Finland appears to be a new country which has only recently come into being. Indeed, one might well assume that settlement of this remote country only took place a few generations ago. In a certain sense, Finland is the America of Europe, though it is even younger than that...

DAS LAND DER WÄLDER UND SEENFinnland ist im Verhältnis zu seiner Oberfläche Europas reichstes Land an Wäldern und Seen. Echte Ödemarksnatur trifft der Wanderer ebenso in der Landschaft Uusimaa in der Nähe der Hauptstadt wie fern in Lappland oder im nordöstlichen Teil Ostbottniens. Diese...