Hero Tales Of The Far North

CONTENTS A Knight Errant of the Sea Hans Egede, the Apostle to Greenland Gustav Vasa, the Father of Sweden Absalon, Warrior Bishop of the North King Valdemar, and the Story of the Dannebrog How the Ghost of the Heath Was Laid King Christian IV Gustav Adolf, the Snow-King King and Sailor, Heroes of Copenhagen The Trooper Who Won a War Alone Carl Linné, King of the Flowers Niels Finsen, the Wolf-Slayer Jacob A. Riis was a photographer, reporter and social reformer. His famous book, How the Other Half Lives, described slum conditions in New York City at the end of the 19th century, and earned him the friendship of Theodore Roosevelt, who said, "... my whole life was influenced by my long association with Jacob Riis, whom I am tempted to call the best American I ever knew, although he was already a young man when he came hither from Denmark."