The Unlucky Viking: A Saga of Sealing and Shipwrecks in the Southern Ocean - Softcover

Harboe-Ree, Cathrine

 
9781922952738: The Unlucky Viking: A Saga of Sealing and Shipwrecks in the Southern Ocean
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1922952737 ISBN 13: 9781922952738
Verlag: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

Early in the twentieth century, adventurous Norwegians were drawn to the southern hemisphere, seeking their fortune from sealing and whaling.

This book tells the extraordinary tale of a young captain, Anders Harboe-Ree, who far from making his fortune was shipwrecked twice on subantarctic islands. The first shipwreck, in 1906, resulted in 14 men being stranded on the desolate and remote Crozet Islands, and to save them Anders and two companions attempted to sail a 5.8-metre whaleboat 7,300 kilometres to Australia across the wild Southern Ocean.


The second shipwreck, two years later, saw 75 men stranded on the equally bleak Prince Edward Islands.


These were the most dramatic, though not the only, misfortunes faced by this unlucky, modern-day Viking. Echoing the old Norse sagas, this book is a gripping story about shipwrecks and survival and an important contribution to sealing and Antarctic history.

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Verlag
Australian Scholarly Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1922952737
ISBN 13 
9781922952738
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
286
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