Excerpt from A Little Journey to Norway: For Intermediate and Upper Grades To visit the Land of the Midnight Sun in any season of the year except summer would be not only to miss the midnight sun itself, but almost to see no sun at all, even in the daytime. With only four hours of dim daylight in some parts of the country, and in other parts a twilight that requires artificial lights all daylong, we should find a winter visit very un satisfactory. The latter part of June or the first of July is the best time of all the year for a journey to Norway. At this season thousands of tourists from all over the world visit this country because of its grand and beautiful scenery. What shall we take with us to make our journey comfortable and pleasant? Warm clothing, by all means, for in many parts of Norway snow may fall even in the middle of summer, and some of the immense snow-masses never melt. We shall need our rain coats, too, for there are portions of this land where it rains a hundred days in the year! We shall take stout clothing for mountain-climbing, but no great amount of luggage, for there are few railways in N or way, and the native carriages are not made for carry ing heavy baggage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.