MANY ADVENTURES
VAGRANT VIKING, by Peter’ Freuchen, transiated from the Danish by Johan Hambro; Victor Goliancz, English price 18/-. ETER FREUCHEN — explorer, trader, film actor, farmer, sailor, lecturer, and journalist (to quote his own summery) — here tells a bright and breezy story of his extraordinarily adventurous life. If at times on his own showing he lacked discretion, he never failed in courage, in loyalty to his country, and in practical sympathy for the under-dog even at the risk of his own life. Freuchen’s first experience of the Arctic was with Mylius-Erichsen’s ex-
pedition; later with Knud Rasmussen he founded a trading post at the Eskimo settlement they named Thule, which is now a busy outpost of American defence. His journeys in the Arctic required fortitude as well as great vitality; nearly always they had to kill some of the dogs for food, once they were forced to eat the strips of walrus skin from under their sled, and another time ("Sundowner," please note) to chew rabbit excrement. Freuchen’s war-time experiences in the underground movement in Denmark, his adventures in Russia and Siberia, and his travels in South America are in another category; his experiences in Hollywood and_ elsewhere as a film star in.yet another. There is space only to mention them in
a short review.
L.J.
W.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 786, 13 August 1954, Page 14
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217MANY ADVENTURES New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 786, 13 August 1954, Page 14
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