Pekka Piri
The Call of the Sagas
To Iceland in an Open Boat
In the year 1994, skipper Pekka Piri and navigator Matti Pulli piloted a 7-meter motorboat from Helsinki over the Baltic Sea, North Sea and North Atlantic to Iceland.
Both 48 years old, Piri had lost his career as a personnel manager, and Pulli had lost his ship, the freighter m/s Finnpolaris, in a wreck off the west coast of Greenland. Now what they both needed was space.
On May 17, 1994, they set out on a 2,200-mile voyage into the unknown. A journey that began with a skipper's dream and a navigator's faith in that dream led to unshakable trust in each other.
Make a historic ocean voyage in a small motorboat to the distant island of the Viking sagas.
Experience the effort and the trust, the determination and the brotherhood, the overwhelming joy of limits broken and a dream fulfilled. You will laugh and you will cry.
The voyage of The Call of the Sagas has become a legend and the book a classic praised by readers and master authors alike.
”The Call of the Sagas is a sea novel, an epos actually. It's rightful place in the book shelf is next to the 1000-year-old original Viking sagas.”
Veijo Meri, member of the Finnish Academy, senior renowned Finnish author
”The Call of the Sagas soars on the wings of an albatross. You cannot put it out of your hands.”
Mirkka Rekola, senior author and poet, candidate for the Neustadt prize in 2000
”It is one of the best books I have ever red.”
Unknown reader on Internet
”It is amazing – it is great – it is a monument...!”
Reader in Luxemburg
”It is the very soul of that man”
Matti J. Kuronen; clergyman, author, psychotherapist
