"Sæt mig ikke paa en hardere Prøve!" Johan Kulstads beretning fra Svalbard 1853

• Main Author: Knutsen, Nils Magne
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Bokmål
• Published: University of Tromsø 2012
• Subjects: VDP::Humanities: 000::Literary disciplines: 040::Nordic literature: 042; VDP::Humaniora: 000::Litteraturvitenskapelige fag: 040::Nordisk litteratur: 042; Arctic; Kulstad; Norway; Paa; Svalbard; Finnmark; sami; Spitzbergen
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/5044

In his book from 1865 Johan Kulstad tells the story of a hunting expedition to Spitzbergen in 1853. The mother ship disappears, and in desperation Kulstad and his six men starts rowing their small hunting boat back to Norway. After six days of incredible suffering, they are rescued by a Danish ship...