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Author: Luigi Amedeo di Savoia (duca degli Abruzzi)
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Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Author: Fridjtof Nansen
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0375505334
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 545

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In 1893 Nansen set sail in the Fram, a ship specially designed and built to be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures, and travel with the sea's drift closer to the North Pole than anyone had ever gone before. Experts said such a ship couldn't be built and that the voyage was tantamount to suicide. This brilliant first-person account, originally published in 1897, marks the beginning of the modern age of exploration. Nansen vividly describes the dangerous voyage and his 15-month-long dash to the North Pole by sledge. An unforgettable tale and a must-read for any armchair explorer.

Author: Umberto Cagni
Publisher: Andesite Press
ISBN: 9781298635457
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Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Author: Luigi Amedeo di Savoia (duca degli Abruzzi)
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Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
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Author: Fridtjof Nansen
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1602392374
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 699

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In September of 1893, Norwegian zoologist Fridtjof Nansen and 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 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.

Author: Luigi Amedeo Di Savoia (Duca Degli Abruz
Publisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781293724330
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Languages : en
Pages : 112

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Farther North Than Nansen: Being The Voyage Of The Polar Star Luigi Amedeo di Savoia (duca degli Abruzzi), Umberto Cagni H.W. Bell, 1901 Science; Earth Sciences; Geography; Arctic regions; History / Polar Regions; Science / Earth Sciences / Geography

Author: Luigi Amedeo di Savoia (duca degli Abruzzi)
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Languages : en
Pages : 97

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Author: Luigi Amedeo di Savoia
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230443164
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Languages : en
Pages : 28

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... little lower than what it usually is on this island; but we did not suffer at all from it, and the following day, when it. rose to 280, we thought it was warm. Concerning the personnel of our train, I had reserved to myself the right to choose my men, and to assign to them their respective posts according to the necessity of the moment. And, purposely, I had not made any arrangements beforehand, firstly, lest I should occasion jealousies, which are always injurious to the good understanding that should exist among the members of an expedition; secondly, because it was impossible to know beforehand who would be best fitted for the various posts; and thirdly, because, if I deemed it necessary to make a change in the disposition of the men, any who should have to return might not have reason to feel he was unjustly treated, where all desired, with equal ardour, to accompany the group that advanced the furthest. This hope had been manifested all through the winter, and with all the greater eagerness now that we were actually en route. With the approval of H.R.H. I had decided to take with me to the end of our journey one guide and one seaman. But in order to leave myself an entire liberty of choice as to the selection of men for the various groups (which had had to be arranged at the outset so as to adjust the right proportion of food and labour), I had assigned the two seamen to a group with Lieutenant Querini; the two elder guides to my group; and the two younger ones, with the engineer Stokken to Dr. Cavalli's group: Captain Evensen, with two Norwegian seamen, to the reserve group, which was to accompany us for two days. To these latter three men we only allotted a small quantity of change of clothing, it being understood that, save for...

Author: Fridtjof Nansen
Publisher:
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Category : "Fram" Expedition
Languages : en
Pages : 806

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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.

Author: Fridtjof Nansen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN: 9780715630310
Category : "Fram" Expedition
Languages : en
Pages : 508

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Nansen's three-year expedition to the North Pole with the Fram marked the beginning of the modern age of exploration. This book is an account, by Freidtjof Nansen, of that expedition. It describes his plan, ridiculed by his peers, to allow the specially designed Fram to become frozen in the treacherous pack ice of the Arctic Oceans. Drifting with the current, he and his crew of twelve would be carried to the Pole. Unfazed by the discovery that the plan is a failure, he sets out with a fellow crew member to cover the remaining distance across the ice on foot. It was to take them a further harrowing fifteen months during which they shared a sleeping bag of rotting reindeer fur and were forced to feed the weaker sled dogs to the stronger ones. They were to travel 146 miles farther north than any Westerner had gone before, representing one of the greatest single gains in polar exploration in four centuries.