Ninety-eight days at sea? All the way to America? In a boat like that?
Tarald Aano
Stavanger Aftenblad
Nearly 200 years ago, 52 Norwegians traveled to North America in a wooden boat, which might be hard to imagine. According to enthusiasts behind the replica ship Restauration, this makes it all the more important to share this story of war and persecution—and of some rather ordinary people from Stavanger who changed history.
Would you travel to America in a boat like this?
“No, I would take a plane.”
And if there were no flights?
“Then I
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