Showing posts with label Edward Backhouse Mounsey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Edward Backhouse Mounsey. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Edward Backhouse Mounsey

One further set of photos from the cruise of the Nereid in 1869.

 Geiranger
  
 Geiranger. Mountain Torrent
  
 Hoisting the Main
  
 Kjendal's Brae
  
 Near Geiranger
  
On board the Nereid
 

Sunday, May 8, 2016

Edward Backhouse Mounsey

Edward Backhouse Mounsey was an English photographer. In the summer of 1869, along with other tourists he sailed on the yacht Nereid to Norway, one of the first foreign tourist boats that visited that country. They visited, among other Alesund, Geiranger, Molde, Stavanger, Veblungsnes og Romsdal. 

 Afternoon on Deck - Nord Fjord
  
 Brixdals Brae
  
 Group at Geiranger
  
 Hoisting Coals - Aalsund
  
 Stavanger - The Enocksens
  
 Storhatten
  
 Summit of Storhatten