(You can get access to this on Google. Ask for the English translation, as the original is in Norwegian. It appears he wrote other books, too.)
Fur, mosquitoes and cold
EINAR ODD MORTENSEN
Fur Dealer
Gyldendal
Recovered book manuscript about the adventure is good reading nearly a hundred years later.
PER Haddal
Updated: 20.okt. 2011 1:00
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Mortensen, Odd Einar "The factor"
In 1925 went Einar Odd Mortensen, age 23, of North
Canada to live three years among the Indians and trappers. Only now is his account. It was worth waiting på.Der Mortensen came home to take over the family furniture business in Oslo, he sat down to write down their experiences in the wilderness. But halfway through, he gave up, presumably because Helge Ingstad released his "Pelsjegerliv". Ingstad went out well after Mortensen, but was first on the book market.
Well-written.
Mortensen's draft was lying in the attic and found my family a few years ago, after his death. With some editing is "Fur Dealer" at Gyldendal, a stunning fresh and well-written bokblikk at a time and an environment more than ever must appear as enticing exotic, even as blasting cold or mosquito filled it could be, in drastic contrast. Equally exotic is that the amateur was considered an expert on fur because he was Norwegian. Mortensen was one of the many who had read "Deer Kills" and "The Last of the Mohicans" in childhood. His encounter with the Indians' real life was disillusioning. So much romance it was not life conditions. But Mortensen sees all aspects of Indian culture, both the relaxed and intense, during the hunt. A sharp observer he is, with the ability to articulate their experiences in a clear, simple and effective språk.Så great heights as Helge Ingstad when he did not, but the book will suit anyone with an adventurous spirit going in the direction of the wilderness, then.
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