Cato Maximilian Guldberg was born on August 11, 1836, in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway, the eldest of nine children of Carl August Guldberg, a minister and owner of a bookstore and printing office, and Hanna Sophie Teresia Bull Guldberg, who came from a highly esteemed and wealthy merchant family of Fredrikstad. When young Cato w as 11 years old, his father was appointed minister at Nannestad, about 50 miles north of Christiania. The foundation for Cato's later interest in the outdoors, hunting, and fishing was laid in his father's remote parish, but he could not receive a satisfactory education there. Therefore, at the age of 13, Cato was sent to live with his maternal gr andmother, Catharina Ohlson, in Fredrikstad, where he attended secondary school and excelled in mathematics. This school could not grant admission certificates to the university so Cato returned to Christiania and spent his last year of secondary education at...