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Nordic Colors Miracle
A journey into the realm of the midnight sun


Very nice Agfa Color Photo book with diary descriptions of a journey in 1939 with the "Milwaukee"
from Hamburg to Iceland, on Svalbard to Norway. That's the world's first Agfa Color Photo Book on Iceland.


Depicted are Island, Westman Islands, Heimaey, Eyjafjalla Glacier, Thingebene, Thingvellirvatn, Isafjördur,
Isafjord, Berry Mountain on Jan Mayen, Spitsbergen, Waggomvay Glacier, Magdalen Bay, Gully Glacier
Greenland, Adams Glacier, Lapp Camp at Lyngseidet, Sunset at Lofoten, Vestfjord,
Svartisen glacier, Fondal-Bre, Skarsfjord, Sunndalsfjord, Sognefjord

Hardcover

  • 72 pages
  • 35 Agfacolor color plates

In good exterior and very good interior condition.
Boards rubbed and age toned, foxing to edges and occasionally to page margins of text pages, else ok.

All pages are complete and tight in the binding.

Approx/Measurements: 9-1/2" x 7-1/4"  ~1.1 lbs.

by Elisabeth D.
Published by Verlag Breit. und H. / Leipzig

Table of contents:

  5 Foreword
  7 Blue Peter
  9 Aboard the Milwaukee
12 Golden fog
17 The gorge of all men
24 Mouse-gray tomcats and sea gods
27 Primeval world
29 Saga Island
31 Queen of the ice sea
33 On the high seas
36 Magdalena
40 At the edge of the world
43 Royal crowns and gemse

48 Arctic
50 Bears
51 The raven
53 Midnight wonder
55 The Lapp dagger
58 The sitz bath
60 Trolls
61 Black ice
64 Flea jumps
67 The oil print painting
68 Bow waves
70 Dragons and ghosts
72 Nordic color wonders




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