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    Reference 4332 (2426)
    Category Arctic;
    Author Nansen, Fridtjof
    Title FARTHEST NORTH: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-96 and of a Fifteen Month's Sleigh Journey By Dr Nansen and Lieut Johnsen with an appendix by Otto Sverdrup Captain of the Fram
    Publishing Information London: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897.
    Description 1st Edition: with about 120 full page and numerous text illustrations, sixteen coloured plates from Dr Nansen's own sketches, etched portrait, photogravures and maps, Vol I x, 510pages. Vol II xi, 671pages. Original covers with gilt titling and a vignette of the Fram on Vol I and sledge scene Vol II. Both Volumes Discrete college library stamp to front end papers otherwise contents clean. COMPLETE, all maps and illustrations as called for. Shelf wear, end papers slitting, odd splitting at gutters but overall still very solid text block. Minor spotting to page edges, age toning to pages but overall a very nice copy. Volume 1, very large folding map neatly repaired tears, not affecting map. Fridtjof Nansen made his first voyage to Greenland waters in a sealing ship in 1882, in 1888 to 1889 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 1906-08. 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 £200.00
    Keywords arctic, polar S1-Arc
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