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The Unlucky Viking - Couverture souple

Harboe-Ree, Cathrine

 
9781922952738: The Unlucky Viking
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1922952737 ISBN 13 : 9781922952738
Editeur : Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2023

Synopsis

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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Éditeur
Australian Scholarly Publishing
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1922952737
ISBN 13 
9781922952738
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
286
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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