Across the Roof of the World

This was an interesting book, with some unusual features. Written in his native Norwegian, and later translated, Skrede explains at the start of his book that he has just written what he saw. He admits the place names may be wrong, or at least spelled incorrectly. He says in the preface:

I know that I have no very valuable information to give either about geography or ethnology, but I did see a number of things I thought were strange and wonderful, and, with the help of some tattered diaries in which I recorded impressions in ungrammatical sentences, I have tried to write about them.