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Fridtjof Nansen in the Frozen World

The Fram Expedition

By: Fridtjof Nansen,S. L. Berens

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Fridtjof Nansen in the Frozen World

The Fram Expedition

By: Fridtjof Nansen,S. L. Berens

To quote the lengthy title page when this book was originally published in 1897: "The 'Fram' Expedition, Nansen in the Frozen World, preceded by a biography of the great explorer and copious extracts from Nansen's First Crossing of Greenland; also an account by Elvind Astrup of life among people near the pole, and his journey across northern Greenland with Lieutenant Robert E. Peary, United States Navy, arranged and edited by S. L. Berens, Cand. Ph.D. Followed by a brief history of the principal earlier arctic explorations from the Ninth Century to the Peary Expedition, including those of Cabot, Frobisher, Bering, Sir John Franklin, Kane, Hayes, Hall, Nordenskjold, Nareds, Schwatka, DeLong, Greely, and others; by John E. Read, Assistant Editor of the Columbian Cyclopedia.

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536

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1410209830

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9781410209832

Farthest North

The Incredible Expedition to the Frozen Latitudes of the North

By: Fridtjof Nansen

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Farthest North

The Incredible Expedition to the Frozen Latitudes of the North

By: Fridtjof Nansen

In 1893, Fridtjof Nansen set sail for the North Pole in the Fram, a ship specially designed to be frozen into the Polar ice cap, withstand the pressure of the ice and drift to the Pole. Experts said that such a mission was tantamount to suicide, but this is the first-person account of this historic success. Nansen tell of his expedition's struggle against snowdrifts, ice floes, polar bears, scurvy, gnawing hunger and the seemingly endless polar night that transformed the Fram into a cold prison of loneliness. Setting out in the end on a harrowing 15-month sledge journey to reach his destination by foot, he was required to share a sleeping bag of rotting reindeer fur and to feed the weaker sled dogs to the stronger ones. Given up for dead, he traveled 146 miles farther north than anyone else in the past 400 years. This edition is abridged from the two original volumes.

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1903933099

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9781903933091

The First Crossing of Greenland

By: Fridtjof Nansen

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The First Crossing of Greenland

By: Fridtjof Nansen

First published in English in 1890, this book by Norwegian explorer and scientist Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) recounts the first crossing of the Greenland interior in 1888, an expedition that took two months. Learning from previous failed attempts, Nansen suggested crossing from the uninhabited east to the inhabited west of Greenland, an innovation that proved successful. Nansen's account was translated by Hubert Majendie Gepp and includes an introduction written by the secretary of the Royal Geographical Society. Volume 1 describes the initial stages of the journey, including detailed accounts of the equipment, the methods used for crossing the ice and the arrival of the party on the east coast of Greenland. The volume ends with a description of previous attempts to cross the 'inland ice'. Nansen, who later served as delegate to the League of Nations, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922 for his humanitarian endeavours.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108031099

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9781108031097

Russia and Peace

By: Fridtjof Nansen

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Russia and Peace

By: Fridtjof Nansen

This book, first published in 1923, endeavoured to provide a brief account of the social and economic conditions in Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century. Russia and Peace discusses the interest in Russia shown by other countries, the country’s economic development, and the social problems it was experiencing at the time. This book will be of interest to students of history.

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Routledge

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1317435788

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9781317435785

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Fridtjof Nansen in the Frozen World

Fridtjof Nansen in the Frozen World

Farthest North

Farthest North

The First Crossing of Greenland

The First Crossing of Greenland

Russia and Peace

Russia and Peace

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