Figari, Elias Lönnrot's homeland - Lights, colours, landscapes of Southern Finland

ELIAS LÖNNROT'S HOMELAND is a book of photographs, mainly landscapes. Most of the pictures have been taken in the countryside between Sammatti and Lohja where Elias Lonnrot passed his childhood on the shores of lake Valkjärvi. Therefore the book is dedicated to Elias Lonnrot but also well represents the main ecosystems of Southern Finland: the Lake system formed by the last glaciation 10.000 years ago, the Countryside with its cultivated fields, the old farms and barns, the Forest, with its...