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Farthest North - Volume 1
Fridtjof Nansen
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One of the 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time.
-- National Geographic
"Nansen was the Chuck Yeager of polar exploration."
--The New York Times Book Review
Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship "Fram", 1893-96 and of a Fifteen Months' Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen
One of the 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time.
-- National Geographic
"Nansen was the Chuck Yeager of polar exploration."
--The New York Times Book Review
Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship "Fram", 1893-96 and of a Fifteen Months' Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen
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Colin Archer
If we turn our attention to the long list of former expeditions and to their equipments, it cannot but strike us that scarcely a single vessel had been built specially for the purpose—in fact, the majority of explorers have not even provided themselves with vessels whic. . . Read More
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Were I shopping to join a polar exploration around 1900, I could have done no better than go with the intrepid Fridtjof Nansen, the Norwegian leader of what strikes me as the most competently led polar journey ever. His Farthest North is the description of his trip, which consisted of five parts.
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"The spirit of mankind will never rest till every spot of these regions has been trodden by the foot of man, till every enigma has been solved."
In a time when a veil of mystery still shrouded the Arctic, when maps were left blank in the northern regions and theories about Arctic continents and warm
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I just finished reading Farthest North: The Epic Adventure of a Visionary Explorer, by Fridtjof Nansen. The book chronicles the 1893-1896 polar expedition of Nansen and his crew aboard the schooner Fram.
I continue to be fascinated by the exploits of men like Nansen and his crew. In pursuit of knowle
Fridtjof Nansen takes you there. 1893. The Polar Sea. The arctic ice was just a blank on the map, and where others have failed, Nansen will push on.
This is a first-person account, based on handwritten journals, day in, day out. Nansen must turn a deaf ear to those critical colleagues who say it can'