Briefe aus dem hohen Norden / Eine Fahrt nach Spitzbergen mit dem HAPAG-Dampfer "Auguste Viktoria" im Juli

A sequence of letters sent home during a summer voyage along the Norwegian coast, followed by recollections written after return, portrays life aboard a grand ocean liner and a route through Hardangerfjord, Trondheim, the Lofoten and North Cape, Bear Island and a passage into the Spitsbergen icefjord. The account blends vivid landscape and seascape description—fjords, waterfalls, glaciers, icebergs and the midnight sun—with practical and social details of shipboard routine, passengers, excursions and hunting, plus episodes of whale and polar-ice observation and visits ashore in Tromsø, Bergen and smaller coastal settlements.