This book is described as expertly informative for the intending tourist or the armchair tourist. The magnetic fields of Denmark, Norway and Sweden are visited as well as the less-trodden ways of Finland, Iceland and Greenland. The author is credited with a good eye for spectacular natural phenomena: the fire and snow in Iceland, Greenland's icy mountains, water, islands and sky as well as an interest in historical entertainments. From Kirkus Reviews: "The solid information outweighs the cafe chatter. However, the author cannot resist some sniggering appreciations of sex mores in Sweden and Denmark, which leads to an inane 'interview' with a quartet of Swedish damosels and a happy view of the nude bathing of a Finnish poet's wife. " Illustrated with numerous colour and black and white photographs.