The book Järnets rike, The Iron Empire, is a book about the indsustrial development of Värmland from the mid 15th. century to the mid 17th. century as well as the history of the Geijer family their origin and their foundation of the Uddeholm company.

A fascinating story about the time when Sweden was the biggest export country of steel in the whole world.

Here is also the story about the famous Swedish writer Erik Gustaf Geijer and his birthplace Geijersgården in Ransäter.

The book will be published at Gullers september 2009.

The photo numbers refers to the website and archive of Bildhuset where these and a lot more photos by Bengt af Geijerstam and several other Swedish top photographer can be found.