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| Other authors / contributors: | Sverdrup, Otto Neumann, 1854-1930.
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| ISBN: | 0665527357
9780665527357
0665296304
9780665296307
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| Notes: | Translation of: Fram over Polhavet.
Four col. folded maps in pockets on inside of covers.
This ed. lacks index.
Includes bibliographical references.
Restrictions unspecified
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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| Summary: | In September of 1893, Norwegian zoologist Fridtjof Nansen and a crew manned the schooner Fram, intending to drift, frozen in the Arctic pack-ice, to the North Pole. When it became clear that they would miss the pole, Nansen and his companion Hjalmar Johansen struck off by themselves. Racing the shrinking pack-ice, they attempted, by dog-sled, to go "farthest north." They survived a winter in a moss hut eating walruses and polar bears, and the public assumed they were dead. In the spring of 1896, after three years of trekking, and having made it to within four degrees of the pole, they returned to safety. Nansen's narrative stands with the best writing on polar exploration
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| Other form: | Print version: Nansen, Fridtjof, 1861-1930. Fram over Polhavet. English. Farthest north. New York : Harper, 1897
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