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Norway In America
Catalog of four exhibitions from Vesterheim that were invited for showing in Hamar, Lillehammer, Gjøvik, 1989. Softcover.
$7.00
Norwegian Emigration: Between Rocks and Hard Places by Ann Urness Gesme
Gesme shares her research detailing customs and conditions in the lives of rural Norwegians as they began to consider emigration in the 1800s. With this information, readers can gain logical and credible insight into the daily lives of Norwegian ancestors. This...
$22.95
Ole Goes To War: Men from Norway Who Fought in America's Civil War by Jerry Rosholt
Many Norwegian immigrants came to the United States to form the Wisconsin 15th Regiment and fight in the Civil War. Through historical photographs and the soldiers own words, this book vividly brings to life the human dimension of this pivotal moment...
$5.00
Place of Tides by James Rebanks
We are all in need of lights to follow. One afternoon many years ago, James Rebanks met an old woman on a remote Norwegian island. She lived and worked alone on a tiny rocky outcrop, caring for wild Eider ducks...
$28.99
Punished: A Novel by Ann-Helén Laestadius
From the internationally bestselling author of the “extraordinary” (Fredrik Backman) novel Stolen comes a harrowing story—inspired by true events—of five Indigenous children forced to attend a government-run boarding school in 1950s Sweden, revealing the emotional scars they carry thirty years later.In the...
$19.99
Ragna Breivik: et liv ved veven By Åse Enerstvedt
Ragna Breivik was a weaver who worked at the influential Oslo studio of Augusta Christensen. She wove several large commissions including a wall-hanging from Axel Revold's picture "In Gethsemene." She then went to the Art and Handicrafts School in Bergen...
$40.00
Red River Girl - The Art of Orabel Thortvedt
This fascinating coffee table-style book, published in 2020, is the result of a cooperative effort between the West-Telemark Museum in Eidsborg and the Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County, in Moorhead, Minnesota. This is a remarkable publication that tells...
$45.00
Roser, Liljer og Blues (Roses, Lilies and Blues) Folk Art, Folk Music and the Romantic Era by Nils Georg Brekke
A shooting script for an up-coming film, this beautiful book of full-page, color photographs outlines the movie's story of two young brothers in 1782, who travel from farm to farm to earn money as rose painters in the fjord districts...
$110.00
Sami Dreams Exhibit Catalog by Randall Hyman
A photographic and oral journey, the catalog is interactive with QR codes to online links on each page that allow readers to actually listen to each portrait subject speak directly to them. Soft cover. Randall Hyman has traveled the globe on...
$29.95
Sámi – Publication of Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum
Featuring articles about the Sámi, the indigenous people of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the Kola Peninsula of Russia. Authors include Nathan Muus, Scott M. Williams, Faith Fjeld, J.R. Christianson, and Svein Ludvigsen. Muus and Fjeld were two of the guest...
$5.00
Secrets of the Gnomes by Wil Huygen
The 200 hand-illustrated pages overflow with the authors’ on-the-scene sketches and firsthand observations. In Secrets of the Gnomes, authors Poortvliet and Huygen are invited as more than mere observers. After a meal of mushrooms and cream (which tastes as if it...
$35.00
Shortest History of Scandinavia by Mart Kuldkepp
14,000 Years from the Stone Age and the Vikings to the Happiest Nations in the World In The Shortest History of Scandinavia, historian Mart Kuldkepp masterfully sketches the outlines of Scandinavia’s rich history—from the first known peoples of the region, who followed...
$16.95
Sing Til The Cows Come Home with CD by Peggy Larson
Kulokk (traditional Norwegian herding call) has taken Larson from Concordia College in Minnesota to teaching positions in Scotland, Corsica, London, Paris, Amsterdam, and even the exotic Amery Wisconsin. This book includes historical notes, vocal techniques, pronunciation guide, plus 19 music...
$25.00
Skis Against The Atom by Knut Haukelid
The exciting, first-hand account of heroism and daring sabotage during the Nazi occupation of Norway. The outcome of World War II could very possibly have been much different if Knut Haukelid and his small, but courageous band of Norwegian soldiers...
$15.95
Snus I Snogen, Tromf I Brogen En Bok Om Kjenger by Sverre Strandenes
This complete overview of wooden Norwegian drinking vessels features details and images of over 480 pieces. Includes extensive information about the original owners and farms, plus beer brewing, drinking customs, and rural artists. Norwegian text, short English summary, hardcover.
$115.00
Steel Girders & Steeplechases: The Life & Art of Bernard H. Berntsen by Clifford Miller
Read the facinating story of Bernhard Berntsen. Born in 1900 in Ostre Aker, Norway, Berntsen came to America when he was 19, settling in New York. Soon he was building skyscrapers, threading across open I-beams hundreds of feet in the...
$19.95
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