Topelius, Zacharias,  1818-1898 <br/><br/>
Maamme kirja 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maamme_kirja  Release date is 2015-08-04 
<br/><br/>Produced by Kristiina Tammitie and Tapio Riikonen  Produced by Kristiina Tammitie and Tapio Riikonen 
<br/><br/> "Maamme kirja" by Zacharias Topelius is a book originally published in Swedish in 1875 that describes Finland, its provinces, nature, people, and history. Written as a textbook for schoolchildren, it served for decades to build national consciousness during Finland's emergence as a unified economic and political entity. Topelius portrayed Finland as a harsh land requiring hard work from its citizens, using the Finnish horse as a model of dedication. The book became a publishing phenomenon, selling 240,000 copies by 1907. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Folklore -- Finland Finland -- History -- Fiction 
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