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    Category Arctic;
    Author Sorensen, Jon (Translated from the Norwegian by J.B.C. Watkins)
    Title THE SAGA OF FRIDTJOF NANSEN.
    Publishing Information New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1932.
    Description 1st American Edition of English Translation. Published for the American-Scandinavian Foundation; 372pp, (1 publishers advertisements). Illustrated, 22 b/w photographs. Blue cloth covers with gilt titling to spine, with tatty dustjacket. The first full-life biography of the renowned Norwegian explorer/biologist, published soon after his death. An account of the adventures of Fridtjof Nansen, explorer and Nobel Prize winner. First English edition. In his youth a champion skier and ice skater, he led the team that made the first crossing of the Greenland interior in 1888, and won international fame after reaching a record northern latitude of 8614' during his North Pole expedition of 189396. Although he retired from exploration after his return to Norway, his techniques of polar travel and his innovations in equipment and clothing influenced a generation of subsequent Arctic and Antarctic expeditions. Dustjacket is in pieces, covers sunned, previous owners bookplate to front pastedown, front end paper split at hinge. Contents clean. Good.
    Price £20.00
    Keywords qpolarq, arctic, polarbook, polar, S1-Arc
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