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WORKS IN ENGLISH FROM AND ABOUT THE FAROE ISLANDS
070: Bibby, Andrew: The Faroes
in: The Independent on Sunday, Aug. 28, 1994
<A comprehensive and informative travel report.
Cf'. also Samantha Arditti’s letter "Tourist potential
blighted by the Faroese sport” in The Independent
on Sunday, Sept. 4, 1994, p. 14, in which Arditti
claims that the tourist potential of the Faroes is
damaged by the slaughter of pilot whales>
071: Binyon, Michael: Treaty pours oil on
Viking waters
in: The Times, May 17, 1999, p. 14, 1 map
<Agreement of maritime boundary between UK and
Faeroe Islands will pave way for oil exploration>
072: Bird catching
in: The Times, no. 9667, Nov. 1, 1815, [p. 4|
<On bird catching in the Faroe Islands and in
Russia>
073: Bjorck, Svante: Integration of ice core,
marine and terrestrial records of termina-
tion 1 from the North Atlantic region
in: Quaternary Science Reviews. Oxford, vol.
20, 2001, no. 11, pp. 1169-1274, illustrations
<Quoted from http://sbbwebl.spk-berlin.de>
074: Bjørk, E.A.: Heimrustir
in: Fróðskaparrit, vol. 9, 1960, pp. 47-77
<An ethnological and etymological investigation of
the ”heimrustir”, the areas around the farmhouses
that were used for building, grazing, digging turf and
clay. English summary on pp. 74-75>
075: Bjørk, E.A.: Oyðing av rottum og
músum í Føroyum. Eitt rættar- og mentu-
narsøguligt yvirlit
in: Fróðskaparrit, vol. 16, 1969, pp. 52-78,
references
<”Extermination of rats and mice in the Faroe
Islands. An overview of legal and cultural aspects”.
English summary on pp. 76-77
076: Bláhamar, F[redrik]: A Dangerous
Voyage
Translated by Poul Olvhøj, with an afterword
by Birgitta Hylin
n.pl. [Aberdeen] (Poul Olvhøj) n.y. [2001], 32
pp., b/w-photographs
<The first English translation of Bláhamar’s tale ‘Ein
vandaferð’ in which he tells of an attack of a German
submarine on an unarmed Faroese fishing smack and
of the subsequent rescue of its crew, who sailed to
Scotland in a small, open boat. Contents: About this
book (Poul Olvhøj), p. 1; Foreword (Poul Olvhøj),
p. 2; A Dangerous Voyage (F. Bláhamar), pp. 3-27;
Some facts regarding life on the Faroe Islands during
the Second World War (Birgitta Hylin), pp. 28-31.
Bláhamars little book is an important contribution
to the literature about the Second World War in the
Faroes. The first Faroese edition was published in
Tórshavn in 1952; a second edition followed in
1979. A Swedish edition was published in 1982 and
a German one in 1989>
■4 Biographical note
Fríðrikur Bláhamar, * Febr. 16, 1902, Elduvík, ( July
6, 1981, Vestmanna. Faroese sailor and ship owner.
Bláhamar took his Skipper’s exam in Tórshavn in
1926 and gained his Master’s certificate in 1930. In
1924-25 he attended the Faroese Folk-High School.
During the Second World War he sailed with fish
from Iceland to the UK. After the war Bláhamar
became a ship owner and committed himself to
politics. From 1945 to 1958 he was a member of the
Løgting for Fólkaflokkurin. ”A Dangerous Voyage”
was his only book
077: Blake, Wfilfred] Tfheodore]: Flying
Round the World
London (Heath Cranton) 1923, 238 pp., 22
photographic illustrations on 12 plates
<An account of the first attempted circumnaviga-
tion by air. Blake set off eastwards in a DH9 from
London towards Scotland via Africa, India, Tokyo,
Vancouver, Halifax, and the Faroes, using different
aircraft en route. His landing in the Faroes was the
first visit to the Faroe Islands on board a plane>
>- Reviewed in:
TLS, no. 1113, May 17, 1923, p. 334 [E.E.
Mavrogordato]