Like a modern Viking 32-year-old Nansen set sail from Norway in 1893 to reach the North Pole. Experts warned him that his voyage was tantamount to suicide. Compact and nimble, his ship the Fram had been specially built to withstand the relentless, d…
Fridtjof Nansen (1861 - 1930) var en norsk polfarer, oppdager, diplomat og vitenskapsmann. I 1888 nsket Nansen utforske det indre av Gr nland. Tidligere ekspedisjoner, blant andre Adolf Erik Nordenski ld hadde fors kt g fra den bebodde vestkysten ti…
Nansen's "Fram" expedition was an attempt by the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen to reach the geographical North Pole by harnessing the natural east-west current of the Arctic Ocean. In the face of much discouragement from other polar explorers,…
Fridtjof Nansen hadde et klart vitenskapelig siktem l med sine ekspedisjoner. Fram-ferden hadde som m l vise at havstr mmene kunne f re et skip tvers over Polhavet, kanskje s langt nord at selve polpunktet kunne n s. Fram gikk f rste del av Nord stp…
Accounts of the earliest exploration of the Arctic are scattered through many literatures. In writing this work, reissued here in the two-volume English translation of 1911, the celebrated Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) returned to m…
Originally published in 1897, this two-volume work chronicles the polar expedition of Norwegian scientist Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), who came closer than any previous explorer to the North Pole. Beginning on board his boat, the Fram, which was del…
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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 cou…
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print fo…
Reproduction of the original: Eskimo Life by Fridtjof Nansen
In later life the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work, the Norwegian explorer and scientist Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) led the team that in 1888 made the first successful crossing of Greenland's interior. Finding themselves…
Title: Farthest North. 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 ... With an appendix by Otto Sverdrup, etc. With plates, including portraits.]P…
Title: Eskimoliv ... Med Illustrationer af Otto Sinding.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 mill…
Reproduction of the original: Farthest North by Fridtjof Nansen
This new paperback edition is a compact abridgement of the comprehensive two volumes of journals written by Fridtjof Nansen during his daring crossing of Greenland. At the time, no one had ever succeeded in or even seriously thought about penetratin…
In later life the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work, the explorer and scientist Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) encouraged and supported the 1901 voyage of his fellow Norwegian Roald Amundsen (1872-1928), publishing this accou…
