Translating a Nordic Journey: Léonie d’Aunet in Norway

• Main Author: Kaasa, Janicke S.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Novus forlag 2021
• Subjects: Travel writing; Travelogues; Translations; Spitsbergen; Scandinavia; Arctic; Léonie; Norway; Hammerfest; Northern Norway; Spitzberg
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2988201; https://novus.no/products/lothe-jakob-ed-nordic-travels

In the spring and summer of 1839, the young Frenchwoman Léonie d’Aunet (1820–79) made her way from Paris through the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, before finally joining the corvette of the La Recherche expedition on its route from Hammerfest in northern Norway to the w...