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    Category Arctic;
    Author Nansen, Fridtjof
    Title FARTHEST NORTH: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893 to 96 and of a Fifteen Month's Sleigh Journey By Dr Nansen and Lieut Johansen with an appendix by Otto Sverdrup Captain of the Fram
    Publishing Information London:George Newnes, Ltd., 1898.
    Description 1898 Edition: 1st Newnes Edition, (Published by Constable and also by Macmillan in the previous year) "with about 120 full page and numerous text illustrations and coloured plate in facsimile from Dr Nansen's own sketches, portrait and maps" Vol I xv, 480pages. Vol II viii, 456pages. Original decorative bevelled covers. Shelf ware, softening to spines, age toning, minor spotting on some pages, ink stain on page edges Volume 1, not affecting text. MISSING map bound in at the end of Volume 1. Fridtjof Nansen first voyage to Greenland waters was in a sealing ship in 1882, in 1888 to 89 he succeeded in crossing the Greenland icefield on skis from East to West. In 1893 he sailed to the Arctic in the Fram (a purpose built, round hulled ship later used by Roald Amundsen to transport his expedition to Antarctica), which was deliberately allowed to drift north through the ice, a journey that took more than three years. When it was apparent that Fram would not reach the North Pole, Nansen, accompanied by Hjalmar Johansen (1867-1923), continued north on foot and reached 86 degrees 14 seconds N, the highest latitude then attained. The two men were forced to spend the winter, surviving on walrus blubber and polar bear meat, on Frans Josef's Land, where they eventually connected with a British expedition. Nansen was professor of zoology and oceanography at the University of Christiania (now Oslo) and Norwegian ambassador in London 1906 to 08. After World War I, Nansen became League of Nations high commissioner for refugees, in which capacity he originated the Nansen passport for refugees. For this work he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1923.
    Price £50.00
    Keywords qpolarq, arctic, polar S1-Arc
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