Through Arctic Lapland (illustrated) By Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts 1 We have not used OCR Optical Character Recognition as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos 2 In books where there are images such as portraits maps sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images so they represent accurately the original artefact Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy Through Arctic Lapland illustrated Years ago I had the pleasure of traveling to the area which is the focus of this book Specifically I took a train from Stockholm to the Swedish city of Kiruna in Norrbotten County then trekked across the glaciers via dogsled into Swedish Lappland But the people here don t recognize the name Lappland or Lapland I was officially in S pmi the land of the S mi people. Book through arctic lapland itinerary Now my reasons for going there were not much different than those of John Hyne He and his artist friend Cecil Hayter one night in somebody s billiard room talked vaguely over going North and doing something up there Six months later they headed out on the Windward an unbelievably tiny sailing vessel with an imaginative map a change of shirt and some canned goods Hyne had actually hung out with the S mi once before in Northwestern Norway so he had some inkling of their culture. Epub through arctic lapland download But he didn t know their language In the area I was in though most spoke Finnish Northern Sami or Lule Sami it was not uncommon to find folks who spoke English so it was rather easy for me to get around But at the time that this travelogue was written there was little of that and so Hyne and his traveling companion had to describe what they observed largely as bystanders Hyne via his writing and his friend through the sketches which accompany this book Hyne unfortunately had very few positive observations to make referring to the Finns as lazy unfriendly and without gumption and the Lapps as unwashed backwards and wiley He describes their language and dress as barbarous the food as exquisitely nasty and the young S mi ladies as plain and dumpy Somehow almost everyone he meets or who provides him assistance or shelter ends up annoying him He constantly comments on the foul aroma of the villages and ports saying that the Lapps would die of starvation even in a boat full of fresh fish because they only seemed to eat of semi dried and decayed flesh He uses language to describe the country such as dismal And the mosquitoes Half the book talks about mosquitoes He never misses an opportunity to bitch about getting eaten alive by mosquitoes everywhere he went And if he wasn t complaining of mosquitoes it was the horseflies He could hardly give a compliment without being sarcastic Of a young woman named Marie he says if there was a breeze blowing and one did not come too close to her she really was in her way a pleasant little companion The only things he shared that seemed to not have a negative connotation was how Laplander coffee was the best flavored in Europe and the genius of the first fisherman who learned how to systematically slaughter blue whales for profit And he surely liked killing things because all he seemed to want to do was get a chance to hunt and shoot something What of the beauty of the virgin wilderness and ancient ice What of anything did he learn about the soul and the human condition from these people What an asshole Being able to travel is a special gift that many of us take for granted It requires time and money that many who are living paycheck to paycheck don t have If you live in America where productivity is valued over anything else you often don t have a lot of paid time off and what you do have is spent on going to see your elderly parents in a different state or staying home with the kids when they have a doctor appointment or a snow day But like any luxury those who have it become callous to their fortune I had a good friend who worked as an engineer for the U. Book through arctic lapland cruise S Navy He had the opportunity to travel all across the world When I d eagerly ask him how he enjoyed certain ports he d complain about having to eat nothing but Chinese food in China and that he couldn t find a bar playing American music in Rhodes Once I called another of my friends a wealthy retiree who never had children and largely spent his money wandering the globe and he answered on his cell from an island off the coast of Brazil where he was drinking cocktails from a table seated in the surf of the Atlantic with his little tootsies barefoot in the soft sand And he was bitching about the service and the heat and his husband and that no one spoke English I laughed and joked with him that sometimes traveling is wasted on the wrong people and it seems this was the case with Mr John Wright Hyne Based on this book you d think the northern Scandinavian peninsula was simply frozen hell. Through arctic lapland book series What I did enjoy was how travel worked out for adventurers before the days of travel agents the internet airlines etc It did take some cajones to do what Hyne and Hayter did I also was intrigued by a story that one of the author s hired hands Johann told about seeing a giant flying fish about eight times as long as his canoe which at first was taken to be some legendary monster but later interpreted as a Russian airship I also liked reading about nomadic hospitality where he would eat much the same food as I did in the temporary tent shelters of the deer herders called lavvu which Hyne spells as la wo And there were a few charming observations on local customs and some colorful characters that really brightened up the narrative One of the most outrageous things Hyne and Hayter did was pester the locals to show them some actual sorcery Hayter drew a sketch of a fat man they knew in England and they wanted their host to practice some magic on the poor gentleman to cause him to waste away so they could go back to England and see if he had lost weight Good golly Fortunately their host refused. Explore the north lapland But overall I had to give this book a low to middling rating because there was too much of an elitist attitude that permeated the whole journal I was looking forward to reading about how a place I had visited over a century since this book was published may have been different in the past But I got no real sense of the place or the people which is a shame as the S mi of today have lost much of their culture due to years of forced assimilation relocation and urbanization I would have loved to have learned about life as a S mi before the days of ice hotels tourist traps selling false replicas of authentic S mi handicraft and staged folklore ceremonies Even in 1898 Hyne recognized that the wheels of progress were forcing the inhabitants of Lapland to adapt with the times and thus some of the rich cultural magic of this unique people was already lost by then To his credit Hyne points out how the S mi had been forced into serfdom as early as the 9th Century and have subsequently been pushed around by everyone from the Norwegians to the Finns to the Russians to the Swedes He outlines how their way of life directly clashes with the laws and land rights of those nations so that a Swedish farmer for instance will be prohibited from shooting an elk except once in a particular month of the year while the Sami who know nothing of these laws happily pilfer and poach on that same farmer s property This has led to bloody skirmishes when Scandinavian villagers get it into their heads that they are being mistreated and set out on Lapp hunts to rid themselves of at least one S mi pest with the crack of a Remington rifle He makes the sage point that the S mi have never been a race of warriors or kings of monuments and ancient texts of heraldry and lineages their history is older than the Romans but there is nothing and no one to preserve them or to immortalize their story through the ages One could almost turn Nihilist out of sheer regret he laments Hyne deserves some kudos for capturing what he could of the S mi lifestyle in this book I just wish he d spent a little quality time on this endeavor and less on his endless battles with horseflies and mosquitoes SCORE Two and a half stars rounded to three Recommended for adventurers and historians but far from the best of the classic travel journals Kindle Edition The travelogue itself is interesting but the book suffers from the facts that the author did not speak the language did not have a translator and did not spend the time to get to know the Lapps except superficially Additionally he did not inform himself on prior books that might illuminate the subject such as Linnaeus travels in Lapland or Johannes Scheffler s book on the Lapps Kindle Edition
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Born on the 11th of May 1865 in Bibury Gloucestershire but raised in Yorkshire Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne attended Cambridge University where he received both a Bachelors and Masters degree Best remembered today for his The Lost Continent he was also extremely popular at one time for his fanciful tales of Captain Kettle a dashing Raffles of the Sea Besides these he wrote historical novels travelogues political commentary and an autobiography totalling roughly fifty novels and a large number of short stories Hyne died on 10 March 1944 at the age of seventy eight Born on the 11th of May 1865 in Bibury Gloucestershire but raised in Yorkshire Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne attended Cambridge University where he received both a Bachelor s and Master s degree Best remembered today for his The Lost Continent he was also extremely popular at one time for his fanciful tales of Captain Kettle a dashing Raffles of the Sea Besides these he wrote historical novels travelogues political commentary and an autobiography totalling roughly fifty novels and a large number of short stories Hyne died on 10 March 1944 at the age of seventy eight site_link.