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Gentlemen travellers in the north: Cutcliffe Hyne's Through Arctic Lapland, 1898

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 July 2004

Ian R. Stone
Affiliation:
Laggan Juys, Larivane Close, Andreas, Isle of Man IM7 4HD

Abstract

Cutcliffe Hyne, a popular late-nineteenth-century writer, and his artist friend Cecil Hayter travelled overland from Varanger Fjord in Arctic Norway to the head of the Gulf of Bothnia in the summer of 1896. The ostensible aim of the trip was to observe the Sami in their own habitat, but it also had an element of adventure for its own sake. Approximately half of the distance was accomplished on foot and the rest by canoe or post cart. They were ill-prepared for the journey and experienced considerable problems in securing food at various farms and villages at which they stopped en route. Hyne wrote a travel book based upon the trip entitled Through Arctic Lapland, and this is of interest today as providing a first-hand account of the way of life of the inhabitants of the region through which they passed and also as an example of a style of travel writing that was then common but is now extinct.

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Copyright
© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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