| Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

Great Lake Saimaa is a tale in words and pictures of the largest lake in Finland and the people who live beside it and actively draw from the lake and their interaction with it the strength that they need in their everyday lives.

This book is a collection of fleeting moments - tiny, inconsequential moments that are like blinks of an eyelid in the history of this descendant of the Ice Age.

The Saimaa depicted here flows, billows, freezes and melts year after year without acknowledging any municipal or provincial boundaries. It is an inexhaustible funfair for those who have the initiative to explore it, a treasury of generous gifts of nature that is open all the year round.