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Super Cheap Helsinki is a travel guide for people seeking cold-hard facts to enjoy the biggest Helsinki adventure on the smallest budget. Choose from city adventures or mix it up with our nature suggestions. Either way, our plans and Helsinki’s fascinating history and jaw-dropping nature will blow your mind, not your budget. Instantly discover everything you need for a luxurious trip to Helsinki on a backpackers budget.

After more than 20 years away, Alda Sigmundsdottir returned to her native Iceland as a foreigner. With a native person's insight yet an outsider's perspective, Alda quickly set about dissecting the national psyche of the Icelanders. This second edition, from 2018, contains new and updated chapters from the original edition, reflecting the changes in Icelandic society and among the Icelandic people since the book was first published in 2012.

It is 1852, and in Sweden's far north, deep in the Arctic Circle, charismatic preacher and Revivalist Lars Levi Læstadius impassions a poverty-stricken congregation with visions of salvation. But local leaders have reason to resist a shift to temperance over alcohol. Jussi, the young Sami boy Læstadius has rescued from destitution and abuse, becomes the preacher's faithful disciple on long botanical treks to explore the flora and fauna. Læstadius also teaches him to read and write - and to love and fear God. 

Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want to try something new? Would you like some guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Greater Than a Tourist audiobook is for you. Greater Than a Tourist - Oslo Norway by Irma Vuckovic offers the inside scoop on Oslo Norway. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this audiobook will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

In this book, author Alda Sigmundsdóttir presents 20 translated elf stories from Icelandic folklore, along with fascinating notes on the context from which they sprung. The international media has had a particular infatuation with the Icelanders’ elf belief, generally using it to propagate some kind of “kooky Icelanders” myth. Yet Iceland’s elf folklore, at its core, reflects the plight of a nation living in abject poverty on the edge of the inhabitable world, and its people’s heroic efforts to survive, physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

Heiða is a solitary farmer with a flock of 500 sheep in a remorseless area bordering Iceland's highlands. It's known as the End of the World. One of her nearest neighbours is Iceland's most notorious volcano, Katla, which has periodically driven away the inhabitants of Ljótarstaðir ever since people first started farming there in the 12th century.

Greater Than a Tourist - Copenhagen Denmark by Maddie Ipsen offers the inside scope on Copenhagen, Denmark. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there's nothing wrong with that, as a part of the Greater than a Tourist series, this book will give you travel tips from someone who lives at your travel destination. This book will not tell you exact addresses or store hours but instead will give you an excitement and knowledge from a local that you may not find in other smaller travel books.

De 1934 à 1935, Paul-Emile Victor séjourna au Groenland avec une petite équipe de scientifiques. En 1936, il traversa la calotte glacière du Groenland. Il hiverna ensuite seul avec une famille esquimau de la côte Est. De 1936 à 1946, il parcourt les Alpes, la Laponie, la Suède, la Finlande, l'Alaska, les iles Aléoutiennes, selon les nécessités de l'époque. Démobilisé en juillet 1946, il rentre en France et organise les Expéditions Polaires Françaises. En 1953, ces Expéditions comptaient à leur actif cinq campagnes d'été et 2 hivernages au Groenland, et 5 campagnes d'été et 3 hivernages en Terre Adélie.

Greater Than A Tourist - Stockholm Sweden, by Laura Andrews, offers the inside scoop on Sweden’s capital.

This bundle includes two audiobooks by Scandinavian lifestyle coach Maya Thoresen. When Maya first immigrated to the US, she was stunned by the hectic way of life. She has authored works on hygge and lagom to reach people who are caught up in the hustle of commercialized life and who have forgotten to enjoy the simpler moments.

This travel guide has put together the best Oslo has to offer for a short trip. When you travel to Oslo for three or four days, you can't see everything, but this guide will make sure you see the best. This guide will make your trip easy and convenient with links to Google Maps to make your stay easy and hassle-free.

Many travelers who have limited time in a city like Reykjavik, make one big mistake.They try to see everything Reykjavik has to offer in three days. The problem with this approach is that they end up burned out and tired. The good news is that if you go to Reykjavik with the right approach you can have an amazing time in 72 hours. The key is not to try and see everything, rather try and see the best of the best Reykjavik has to offer. With all sorts of business districts, restaurants that offer mouth-watering delights, shopping centers, and loads of unique hubs, not a lot of people have the courage to turn down an invitation. Reykjavik will blow your mind!

On an international scale, Oslo is a pretty small capital but, with just over 500,000 people, it's Norway's biggest city by far. More than 10% of the country's total population lives here; if we count people in the entire Oslofjord area in the summertime, it amounts to one third of the population in Norway. What makes Oslo unique is its location. The Oslofjord links the city with the sea to the south. In the other three directions you find mountains, lakes and forests within easy reach from the city center.

The Netherlands has always been a haven for tourists from around the world. In fact there is a yearly increase in the number of tourists who visit the country. World-renowned for its Delft pottery, windmills, and tulips, the Netherlands is also famous for its free-spirited capital, Amsterdam. Found in the northwestern part of Europe, the small country boasts the Frisian Islands, canals and bridges, farmlands, beautiful villages, and highly populated cities.

Lagom is used to describe the perfect state when something is neither too much, nor too little. The Swedish apply lagom to most aspects of their life without thinking about it. This book will show you how lagom can be incorporated into your personal life, family, relationships, work, home, health, and well-being. Living lagom is to live a moderate life where balance is the key to success in all areas.

Your Stockholm Travel Guide is an audiobook that leads you directly to the best Stockholm has to offer. It is a travel guide without fuss, leading you to the most popular attractions and providing in-depth attraction profiles with addresses and opening hours. Budget travelers love the chapters about free things to do in Stockholm and the city's free annual events. If you are unsure where to sleep and eat, follow the recommendations for hotels and restaurants in Stockholm.

Is your life so crazy busy that you don’t even remember the last time you sat down and got to relax and enjoy a cup of coffee or tea? Remember those carefree days when you sat for hours talking with your girlfriends or your buddies without interruption? Remember how you felt? Happy. Relaxed. Content. Comfortable. It was just you and them. That level of happiness is Hygge.

In the summer of 1627, Barbary corsairs raided Iceland, killing dozens of people and abducting close to 400 to sell into slavery in Algiers. Among those taken was the Lutheran minister Reverend Olafur Egilsson. Reverend Olafur wrote The Travels to chronicle his experiences both as a captive and as a traveler across Europe (he journeyed alone from Algiers to Copenhagen in an attempt to raise funds to ransom the Icelandic captives who remained behind).

Barrøy Island off the North-western coast of Norway - a holdfast for a single family, their livestock, their crops, their hopes and dreams. And their fears. There is a taint passed down the Barrøy line, and Hans and Maria Barrøy fear their daughter Ingrid may be affected. The early years of...

Andrew Zimmern, the host of The Travel Channel’s hit series Bizarre Foods, has an extraordinarily well-earned reputation for traveling far and wide to seek out and sample anything and everything that’s consumed as food globally, from cow vein stew in Bolivia and giant flying ants in Uganda...