Arctic drama. Ships and people from pole to pole.
You could have nice days hunting in the ice desert, but most often it was a battle against the forces of nature where the weather gods could be merciless. This book collects Arctic stories from hunting and shipwrecks throughout the 1900th century. You can read about seal hunting in all the hunting grounds, stories from Svalbard and about wintering hunting in Northeast Greenland.
The book tells the story of the great disaster Easter in the Vesterisen in 1917 and the Easter hurricane in 1952 where a total of 12 ships with 167 men were lost. After the dramatic sinkings in 1952 where five ships from Troms and Møre were lost, no trace of the ships was found, until 2023 when an Icelandic trawler found the wreck of an Arctic ship. This turned out to be the Tromsø ship "Brattind". You can read more about this in this book.
You can also read about what happened when the Gratang ship "Asbjørn" sank in 1970.
Furthermore, one can read about the crew that sank twice on the same trip when first "Polarbjørn" and later "Herøyfjord", which took the "Polarbjørn" crew home, went down.
You can also read about the early beginnings of the Norwegian oil adventure, where several of the small wooden ships were used as stand-by ships and for diving missions.
You will also meet the pioneers who built the city that today is called Ny-Ålesund.
The book also takes you on expeditions to both the Arctic and Antarctic.
Drama is prominent in this book, which deals with many shipwrecks, but which also provides a good insight into Norwegian fishing history.
328 pages large format, hard cover.
