Baltic Cruise Background Reading Material

[torst]

Doing a Baltic Cruise in August and looking for background reading material. Any suggestions of guidebooks, fiction or non fiction that you found useful as background preparation for the cruise?

[kochleffel]

Oh! A new edition of the Rick Steves guide to Scandinavian and northern European cruise ports is to be released on August 21, but that is probably too late for you. The current edition is dated 2015.

[klfrodo]

Not sure exactly what you're looking for.

 

Myself? I've checked out YouTube videos after search terms like History of (name of place here).

I've gone to history.com

I've checked out Wikepedia

I've googled local newspapers for current events

and I purchased the above mentioned Rick Steves guidebook

[Sauer-kraut]

This is a moving story:

https://singingrevolution.com/

 

All about Estonia and how they managed to revolt nonviolently by singing patriotic songs.

[Desdichado62]

Doing a Baltic Cruise in August and looking for background reading material. Any suggestions of guidebooks, fiction or non fiction that you found useful as background preparation for the cruise?

 

See these threads:

https://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=2570091

https://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1561110

[Eartha Kitten]

Julianna from Dancing Bear recommended the Massey biography of Peter the Great. I also read the one on Catherine the Great. If you are looking for fiction about Russia, then Russka is enjoyable.

 

 

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