Legatum Publishing is branching out with a dedicated focus on art. Our first artist is writer, sculptor and painter Rikard Högberg, known for helping to preserve a set of 3500 year old rock carvings in Herrebro, Sweden.
I år er det hundre år siden Fridtjof Nansen mottok Nobels fredspris i 1922. I begrunnelsen heter det at Nansen fikk fredsprisen “for sin ledende rolle i forbindelse med tilbakesendelsen av krigsfanger, internasjonalt hjelpearbeid og rollen som Folkeforbundets høykommissær for
This is a contemporary account of Fridtjof Nansen’s early life and endeavors. It takes us through Nansen's boyhood and formative years, all the way up to the famous North Pole expedition on his ship Fram. It is written in an
In his 1845 work The Sieges of Vienna by the Turks, the Austrian topographer, cultural historian and writer Karl August Schimmer elegantly describes the events of the Siege of Vienna (1529) and Battle of Vienna (1683).