author
Edwin Coolidge Kimball
A late-19th-century travel writer, remembered for a vivid journey through Scandinavia, brought readers scenes of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark with a curious eye and a storyteller’s pace.
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Midnight Sunbeams; or, Bits of Travel Through the Land of the Norseman
by Edwin Coolidge Kimball
About the author
Little biographical information about Edwin Coolidge Kimball is readily confirmed from reliable online sources. What can be verified is that he wrote Midnight Sunbeams; or, Bits of Travel Through the Land of the Norseman, a travel book published in the late 1880s and now preserved by projects such as Project Gutenberg and the Online Books Page.
His surviving reputation seems to rest on that book, which follows travels through Scandinavia and reflects the style of 19th-century travel writing: descriptive, personal, and interested in local scenery, customs, and everyday experience. Because dependable sources on his life are scarce, it is safest to remember him chiefly through the work itself rather than through an extensively documented personal biography.