Touring Scandinavia on Ancient Post Roads
35: Postmuseum, 2004. 1st Edition. Softcover. Text in English. 264 pp.
This book invites the reader to a guided tour by the oldest post roads through four Scandinavian countries. An invitation to look at familiar
landscapes in a new perspective and with new understanding of the people who once lived there.
The Scandinavian postal services were established within a short sequence of years in the devastated and depressed 17th century.
The routes by which the mail was sent were called post roads. In written sources and in the landscapes traces of these roads still remain; the
first nationwide and public communications system in Scandinavia However, the itineraries of the book refer to modern road maps.
The four national post museums in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden have as a joint project retrieved information about the oldest post roads in each individual country. This guide book is one of the results. Fine. Item #3283
ISBN: 9788790768157
Price: $100.00