Østmarka
Vast lowland spruce forest of lakes, marshes and trails, now protected as a national park.
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This guide to Østmarka, the great forest on Oslo's eastern edge, follows the Christiania banker Thomas Heftye and the lakeside estate of Sarabråten he bought in the eighteen fifties. It touches on a little paddle steamer on Nøklevann, kings and writers among the visitors, and the ordinary hikers who walked out from town beside them. Best heard on a trail within reach of Nøklevann's western shore.
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