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 /

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 /

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Author / Creator:Nansen, Fridtjof, 1861-1930.
Uniform title:Fram over Polhavet. English
Imprint:New York : Harper, 1897.
Description:1 online resource (2 volumes (x, 587; x, 714 pages)) : illustrations (some color), maps
Language:English
Series:CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series = CIHM/ICMH collection de microfiches ; no. 52735
CIHM/ICMH microfiche series ; no. 52735.
Subject:
Nansen, Fridtjof, -- 1861-1930 -- Travel -- Arctic regions.
Nansen, Fridtjof, -- 1861-1930.
Fram (Ship)
Fram (Ship)
"Fram" Expedition -- (1893-1896)
"Fram" Expedition -- (1893-1896)
Discoveries in geography -- Norwegian.
Travel.
Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- Norwegian.
Arctic Regions.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12377881
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Other authors / contributors:Sverdrup, Otto Neumann, 1854-1930.
ISBN:0665527357
9780665527357
0665296304
9780665296307
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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Print version record.
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
Other form:Print version: Nansen, Fridtjof, 1861-1930. Fram over Polhavet. English. Farthest north. New York : Harper, 1897
Table of Contents:
  • ch. 1. Introduction
  • ch. 2. Preparations and equipment
  • ch. 3. The start
  • ch. 4. Farewell to Norway
  • ch. 5. Voyage through the Kara Sea
  • ch. 6. The winter night
  • ch. 7. The spring and summer of 1894
  • ch. 8. Second autumn in the ice
  • ch. 9. We prepare for the sledge expedition
  • ch. 10. The new year 1895
  • ch. 11. We make a start
  • ch. 12. We say good-bye to the Fram
  • ch. 13. A hard struggle
  • ch. 14. By sledge and kayak
  • ch. 15. Land at last
  • ch. 16. The new year 1896
  • ch. 17. The journey southwards
  • ch. 18. March 15th to June 22nd, 1895
  • ch. 19. June 23rd to August 15th, 1895
  • ch. 20. August 15th, 1895, to January 1st, 1896
  • ch. 21. January 1st to May 17th, 1896
  • ch. 22. The third summer
  • Conclusion / Fridtjof Nansen.

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