The "Faustina" expedition in 1924
Excitement and documentary from fishing and catching. So adventurous with fish – but the Danish navy was hunting for "Faustina".
The reader gets to follow the "Faustina" expedition from day to day, from before departure to return home. Be part of a dramatic crossing, encountering drift ice and seals around Cape Farewell, pulling lines in the Davis Strait, among drifting icebergs, in fair weather and fog, in biting cold and scorching sunshine – and as many fish as there were!
West Greenland was a closed country, and before departure, Denmark threatened to arrest "Faustina" if they came to the coast. But skipper Peder Blindheim defied the ban, and the Eskimos smiled and danced with joy as "Faustina" repeatedly anchored outside their settlements.
"Fire with live fire if Blindheim does not surrender voluntarily," was the order the Danish naval officers received when they hunted for "Faustina" in the Greenlandic archipelago.
