Denmark is a Lovely Land - by Hudson Strode - First Edition Hardcover Book

Denmark is a Lovely Land
by Hudson Strode
published by Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1951

First Edition, First Printing.

Hardcover in very good used condition,
Chipping, tears, toning and edge wear to dust jacket.
Interior is uniformly toned, text is unmarked.


"With this book, whose title comes from the first line of the Danish national anthem, Hudson Strode adds another distinguished volume to his portraits of foreign lands and their peoples. "To visit Denmark in this material age of dubious values and brassy mediocrity," he writes, "is something like coming upon a watered garden in an arid world." And he proves it by depicting the unending variety of this land of rune stones and moated castles; of Diesel engines and smorrebrod; of gymnasts, mariners, and summering storks; of Hans Christian Andersen, Kierkegaard, and physicist Niels Bohr..."