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Author Nansen, Fridtjof, 1861-1930.

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 / by Fridtjof Nansen ; with an appendix by Otto Sverdrup
Published New York : Harper, 1897

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Description 1 online resource (2 volumes (x, 587; x, 714 pages)) : illustrations (some color), maps
Series CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series = CIHM/ICMH collection de microfiches ; no. 52735
CIHM/ICMH microfiche series ; no. 52735.
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
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
Notes Translation of: Fram over Polhavet
Four col. folded maps in pockets on inside of covers
This ed. lacks index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Nansen, Fridtjof, 1861-1930 -- Travel -- Arctic regions
SUBJECT Nansen, Fridtjof, 1861-1930 fast
Subject Fram (Ship)
SUBJECT Fram (Ship) fast
"Fram" Expedition (1893-1896)
"Fram" Expedition (1893-1896) fast
Subject Discoveries in geography -- Norwegian
Travel
SUBJECT Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- Norwegian
Arctic regions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006955
North Pole. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85092525
Subject Arctic Ocean -- North Pole
Arctic Regions
Genre/Form Book.
Form Electronic book
Author Sverdrup, Otto Neumann, 1854-1930.
ISBN 0665527357
9780665527357
Other Titles Fram over Polhavet. English