evince a most remarkable spirit of forbearance and determination. I did not know any of this, of course, when I first arrived with my wife some eleven years ago. Friends offered only that the archipelago [...] to have brought along with him a small library of some fifty volumes, which included the Bible, of course, as well as books in various languages on agriculture and navigation and, given his connection to [...] Faroes. The goods were then later transshipped in Tórshavn harbor and brought into British ports duty free. This was a time of unpre­ced­ented prosperity in the Faroes. Tórshavn harbor was alive with activity