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Scandinavia is the epitome of cool: We fill our homes with Nordic furniture; we envy their humane social welfare system and their healthy outdoor lifestyle; we glut ourselves on their crime fiction. Even their strangely attractive melancholia seems to express a stoic, commonsensical acceptance of life's vicissitudes. But how valid is this outsider's view of Scandinavia, and how accurate is our picture of life in Scandinavia today?
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String of digressions paints cultural picture
- By Le Sabre US on 02-15-18
By: Robert Ferguson
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Norway - Culture Smart!
- The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
- By: Linda March
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
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Norway - Culture Smart! provides essential information, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. This concise guide tells you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and successful business relationships.
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Interresting, but too old
- By Anonymous User on 03-09-20
By: Linda March
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The Nordic Theory of Everything
- In Search of a Better Life
- By: Anu Partanen
- Narrated by: Abby Craden
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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Moving to America in 2008, Finnish journalist Anu Partanen quickly went from confident, successful professional to wary, self-doubting mess. She found that navigating the basics of everyday life - from buying a cell phone and filing taxes to education and childcare - was much more complicated and stressful than anything she encountered in her homeland. At first she attributed her crippling anxiety to the difficulty of adapting to a freewheeling new culture. But as she got to know Americans better, she discovered they shared her deep apprehension.
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A non-radical perspective on two societies
- By kwdayboise (Kim Day) on 06-20-17
By: Anu Partanen
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History of Sweden
- A Captivating Guide to Swedish History, Starting from Ancient Times Through the Viking Age and Swedish Empire to the Present
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
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In contrast to their Danish and Norwegian cousins, Swedish Vikings traveled east rather than west in search of riches, land, and power. The extensive river systems of Russia provided economic and military “superhighways” to the adventurers from the north who journeyed down them all the way to the Black Sea and Constantinople in search of fame and riches. In Captivating History’s History of Sweden, you will learn more about these Swedish adventurers along with other parts of Sweden’s fascinating history.
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More of a wikipedia page than a book
- By Coach Brock on 05-25-23
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The History of Finland
- A Fascinating Guide to this Nordic Country
- By: Christopher Hughes
- Narrated by: Thomas Rode
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
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Finland is a beautiful yet often overlooked country, famous for its windswept landscapes, icy temperatures, hardy people, and thousands of crystal-clear lakes. From its earliest inhabitants at the end of the last ice age, Finland has carved out a place for itself in the far north, creating a thriving economy, resilient culture, and a unique way of life that makes it a truly awe-inspiring place to visit. Now, this book sheds light onto Finland’s diverse and vibrant history.
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short and lacking.
- By Joshua on 11-03-22
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- Customer R
- 08-10-22
Informative and interesting
I learned a lot about the history of these five countries, and how their histories intertwine. When I think of Scandinavia, I think of the Vikings, but they are much more than that.
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- Passionately Plotted
- 05-02-22
A vibrant telling of Scandinavia's rich history!
This audiobook leaves no stone unturned. Taking the listener on a journey far into the past, back to a time when the beautiful castles were born. Deeply informative, you will learn not only about the lands history, but the origins of this country's wonderful people as well. Highly engaging, this isn't you normal history lesson.
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- Erich
- 07-15-23
A narrated Wikipedia article
This is a good book if you want a quick 2.5 hour audiobook on just one of the included countries: Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, or Iceland.
The book is structured into silos, so rather than seamlessly telling about the history of Scandinavia, it tells the stories of each country in full, but sequentially. That means you get to hear the same information about the Protestant reformation five separate times.
Much of the book reads like the CIA world fact book. “Iceland has the third largest alcohol consumption per capita.” The post World War Two portions of the book are very slim, except for Sweden’s modern section which was about twice as long as the rest.
Many parts of the book had a voice closer to a college essay than a history book. I’m especially resentful of one line near the end that went something like “recently potatoes have become a popular crop in Iceland because they are the one vegetable that can grow under ground. Are you sure about that?
As an audiobook critique, I found some of the name pronunciations to be odd choices. Gothenburg for example was pronounced “Goat-enburg” which is neither the English or Swedish pronunciations.
I want to give it an overall two stars but I think that’s a bit unfair even if I spite-read the last 15% of the book so I could leave this critical reveal.
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- ehsan matin
- 08-29-23
Interesting
The culture (not the lgbtq part), the isolation and more importantly, the nature and landscape of this countries are interesting.
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-26-22
Kai
Great introductory book to Scandinavian history. Only thing I’d say is I think I could have done less with the modern history and more ancient history.
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- Kristjan Larson
- 05-10-22
Come for the Vikings … stay for the history
At a little more than 90 mins for each topic, you don’t really get the “complete” picture; however, you do get a good summary that hits the high points and was fun to listen to. I would have liked a lot more prehistory, but there was at least some review of the primitive peoples that originally settled the area. In the end, there was enough missed that I still felt that I don’t have a good picture before the advent of the Viking age. At that point the history is pretty good; weaving the history of each nation into the rest to make a solid view of Scandinavia after that. This is perfect in you don’t actually know much about Scandinavia and entertaining if you know some … and mostly a waste if you have any depth here.
1. Finland
2. Denmark
3. Sweden
4. Norway
5. Iceland
I was given this free advance listener copy (ALC) audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
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- Martin Gunnesson
- 08-26-22
Uneven, shallow and flawed
While Hughes tells his story reasonably well for the parts that interest him, he leaves huge holes when he's not. He sometimes dismisses entire centuries (post 1500) in a few sentences. Even more glaring is when his biases take over, such as concerning the relationship between Sweden and Russia. Then it is hard to avoid the impression that he must have gotten his degrees (whatever they may be) in Moscow...
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