Again, scandinavian social scientists show their innovative spirit in this one-of-a-kind book. A must for those trying to keep up in the field of resource management.

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This time U.S.Marshal Morgan Kane is sent to Mexico to prevent an assasination-attempt on Mexico`s prsident Porfirio Diaz. US intelligence has learned that american citizens supposedly is involved, hence they send Kane. Once again a thilling novel with a most realistic frame is presented by norwegian author Louis Masterson. The only drawback is that the book is quite short. Nevertheless it is a fine piece of work.

Even though I am a 41 year old man, I really enjoyed the story. I think it would make a great script.

This book is great! I think everyone should read this book! It has a story line it gives you details and it really brings all the characters to life! It made me really scared for any little girl that has to do anything similar to the story! I love the illistrations they help make the characters come to life in my imagination!

I read this book as a child and was unable to put it down until I read it through. I am now 50 years old and still rank this book as one of the most memorable from my childhood. Many of the tales are what one would consider "foolish" in the sense that the main character is a "fool". They are a good source of insight into the Norwegian folk beliefs and just plain fun to read. Some are just scary enough that small children get a thrill out of them without being truly frightened, as in the tale of the three trolls with only one eye that they share amongst themselves. A common theme is one of a plain, common or even a dull-witted person outsmarting trolls, witches, the high & mighty, etc. The stories are none of the sweet fluff that passes for children's stories these days. I highly recommend this book for all ages. I recently re-read it and thoroughly enjoyed it

The story of the husband and wife who switched jobs for the day has been a favorite of mine ever since I was a small child. I've read many versions of it. This version is humorous with bold, colorful illustrations. Unlike most other versions, the setting is in the USA. It's a delightful book to be enjoyed by many.

This book takes us all back to the post-revolutionary breakdown of a rural socialist community. After an initial global survey of similar social structures, the elaborate description of the geographic factor in so-called aboriginal socialism is a gift to the reader. You really ought to buy this book.

"Hitler and Goering were once out driving. Passing through a village, they ran over a pig. Goering thought he should find the farmer and apologize for what had happened. He was gone a very long time and received very fine hospitality. When he returned, Hitler asked why he had stayed so long. 'Well, there was so much celebration in the house over what I told them,' Goering replied, 'and finally I had to join in.' 'What did you tell them?' 'That the pig was dead.' This was one of hundreds of jokes told by the Norwegians from 1940 until 1945. While the phenomenom of occupation humor has certainly not been ignored, the role it played in developing a resistance mentality among the Norwegian people has until now been largely unexamined. This humor was expressed in overtly anti-Hitler and anti-Nazi jokes, but it was also found in snide replies, double-entendres, insinuating newspaper advertisements that were not understood by the occupying forces, children's stories, and even Christmas cards. Kathleen Stokker, extending an earlier study by Magne Skodvin, observes that "wartime humor granted a voice to those deprived of free speech, discouraged the undecided from hasty attachment to Nazism, and helped the initially amorphus group of individuals opposed to Nazism to develop a sense of solidarity." Norway was a neutral country in 1940, and just as it had done during World War One, it hoped to remain neutral. Geopolitical realities, however, including the German desire to control access to Swedish iron mines, made Norway and Denmark Hitler's first victims following the end of the Phony War in April of 1940. The Norwegians did not surrender. King Haakon VII established a government in exile in England, and the Norwegian people would wage one of the bravest and most effective resistance campaigns of the war. The popular image of Norwegian resistance has been created by films such as "The Heroes of Telemark," but there were tens of thousands of ordinary Norwegians who resisted in more subtle ways, even if it were only to wear a red cap in defiance of their occupiers. Stokker points out, however, that the image of a people united against oppression is only partly true. There were many Norwgians who did acccept and serve the new National Government headed by Vidkun Quisling, the leader of the Norwegian Nazi Party. But these people were for the most part shunned, and Stokker points out with brillliant originality the way the resisters used humor to debase the collaborators. Stokker, a professor of Norwegian at Luther College, is the author of the most widely used Norwegian-language textbook in America. She draws upon a large number of interviews with survivors of the Occupation, archives in the Norwegian Resistance Museum and the University of Oslo, and "joke notebooks" kept by women who experienced the event. It is a delightful book,well-crafted and historically meticulous. As other societies have discovered, oppression can be endured with humor, for it is a valuable form of psychological warfare. The Norwegians developed that humor, as Stokker so aptly proves, and in the process maintained the spirit that was necessary to prevail. As one reads the book, and looks at the drawings, posters, and cartoons, one gains a deep appreciation for the courage of a people. One also gets a good laugh! Dr. Gerald D. Anderson Department of History North Dakota State University

This is one of my all time favorite books and I usually read it once a year. I only wish it had illustrations of the mountains, islands, ocean and a map. Never-the-less, the words portray a vivid story of hardworking people, and their simple lives of fishing, gathering eggs, harvesting, birthing, dying, etc. In short this is the life of Magda who marries Johan, and travels by boat to live on an island off the northern coast of Norway. "He met her at Vaagen. They put her wooden chest on the wheelbarrow. She wanted to carry the guitar herself...There was only one road in Mostad. It ran from north to south through the middle of the field and was about a quarter of a mile long. At the north end there was a white building with tall windows and a flagpole. That was the schoolhouse. The spring, or the house brook, as they called it, was at the other end. It was the only source of water..." Paal Espolin Johnson tells a wonderful story.