1930 NORWAY magazine article, people, history, etc color photos

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Selling is a 1930 magazine article about:
NORWAY
Title: NORWAY, A LAND OF STERN REALITY
Author: Alfred Pearce Dennis
Subtitled "Where Descendants of the Sea Kings of Old Triumphed Over Nature and Wrought a Nation of Arts and Crafts”
Quoting the first page “Why do people make their habitations in odd and uncomfortable quarters of this planet, where life is hard and dreary? Is it from choice, necessity, or accident? The Latter Day Saints, led by Brigham Young, traversed mountains and plains and settled down in the inhospitable, barren desert of Utah. They wanted to be left alone to work out their destinies in peace, and they made their desert to blossom like a rose. The Children of Israel, seeking a promised land, founded the city of their hopes on a sterile plateau of stones and rubble, while not so many leagues westward from Jerusalem lay an expanse of dark soil comparable in richness to the best black soils of Iowa and the Russian Ukraine.
Similarly, Nature has dealt in niggard fashion with Norway; but the people who have chosen to live there have wrought so wisely and fiercely that all the world admires the Norwegians. Only a little more than 3 per cent of the land is under cultivation. The country lacks the chief prerequisite of modern industrialism-the juxtaposition of iron and coal. The Norwegians, striving to the utmost, cannot eke out a living from their soil. They must import food. Nor can they depend. as does England, upon the exchange of the products of their factories for the products of other people's farms.
Even the skies frown on Norway. The west coast for a good part of the year is shrouded by a pall of mist, fog, and drizzle…"
7” x 10”, 44 pages, 31 B&W and 27 color photos
These are pages carefully removed from an actual 1930 magazine.
30G1
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