The Faroe Islands visited by the French expedition “La Recherche” in 1839. A presentation and discussion of the Faroese chapter of Xavier Marmier’s official account.

• Published in: Fróðskaparrit - Faroese Scientific Journal
• Main Authors: Borm, Jan, Djurhuus Hansen, Bergur
• Other Authors: Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), University of the Faroe Islands
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2022
• Subjects: Travel writing Faroe Islands the Arctic Xavier Marmier La Recherche explorations to the North the sublime Romanticism; Travel writing; Faroe Islands; the Arctic; Xavier Marmier; La Recherche; explorations to the North; the sublime; Romanticism; [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences; Arctic; Ikki; Faroes; Laponie; Spitzberg
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-04534953; https://hal.science/hal-04534953/document; https://hal.science/hal-04534953/file/La_Recherche_article%2Band%2Btranslation.pdf; https://doi.org/10.18602/fsj.v68i.139

International audience AbstractThe French expedition La Recherche conducted by naval surgeon and naturalist Paul Gaimard (1793-1858) was one of the first major international and interdisciplinary scientific endeavours to explore the European North in the first half of the nineteenth century. Inacces...