Description
While still an art student in Copenhagen in 1904, Emilie Demant Hatt had taken a vacation trip to northern Sweden, where she chanced to meet Sami wolf hunter Johan Turi. His dream of writing a book about his people sparked her interest in the culture, and she began to study the Sami language at the University of Copenhagen. Though not formally trained as an ethnographer, she had an eye for detail. The journals, photographs, sketches, and paintings she made during her travels with the Sami enriched her eventual book, and in With the Lapps in the High Mountains she memorably portrays people, dogs, reindeer, and the beauty of the landscape above the Arctic Circle.
This English-language edition also includes photographs by Demant Hatt, an introduction by translator Barbara Sjoholm, and a foreword by Hugh Beach, author of A Year in Lapland: Guest of the Reindeer Herders.
1913, Danish-language edition, A.B. Nordiska Bokhandeln.
About the Author
Emilie Demant Hatt (1873-1958) became a prominent artist in Denmark. She helped Johan Turi write and publish his book, An Account of the Sami, which appeared in 1910 in an innovative bilingual Sami/Danish edition.
Barbara Sjoholm is an award-winning novelist, frequent translator of Danish and Norwegian fiction and nonfiction, and cofounder of the small literary publisher Seal Press.
Book Information
ISBN 9780299292348
Author Emilie Demant Hatt
Format Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint University of Wisconsin Press
Publisher University of Wisconsin Press
Weight(grams) 456g