The Reindeer People: Travels in Lapland

Dust jacket notes: "When Marie Herbert set her heart on joining the annual spring migration of the reindeer Lapps of Northern Norway she would not allow herself to be easily discouraged, even though her first encounters with the Lapps were anything but friendly. Nevertheless, the discovery by Marie at the eleventh hour that she was to be the only woman in a party of four men - all of them strangers - and 600 reindeer gave her something to worry about. The journey which these nomads make every year from the high mountain plateaux to the coastal pastures in the north involves a great cross-country trek by sledge and snow-scooter through a wilderness of snow and ice, following the traditional migration routes used since Lapps followed the first wild reindeer. Her warm and lively account of this windswept winter journey with her four companions shows how initial trepidation turned into delight, as she shared the daily camp fire life and the stories of lynx and wolverine and found herself gradually accepted by these reserved but warm-hearted men with their infectious sense of humour and complete absorption in the reindeer that still constitute so vital a part of the Lapp economy...."