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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, Captain of the Fram]

Nansen, Fridtjof

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1897. Very Good. First Edition. Two volumes [9.75x6.75in]; Vol. I - x, [2], 587 pp., Frontispiece etching of Nansen, 94 illustrations and images, 8 color plate sketches by Nansen, 4 folded maps, Vol. II - x, [1], 714 pp., [1-4] advertisements, frontispiece of sailing kayaks, 123 illustrations and images, 8 color plate sketches by Nansen; Green-brown cloth covers with gilt embossed lettering on front and spine, gilt embossed intertwined rope circle with ship navigation lanterns in red and green and silvered compass face, gilt sailing kayaks on spine, gilt top edge and others untrimmed, map pockets on both inside covers of Vol. I; minor shelf wear to edges and corners slightly bumped, Vol. I offset darkening on front end papers, rear hinge loose and cracked. [Arctic Bibliography 11983, Howgego Polar N3]. Item #11211

Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) was a Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He explore Greenland and the North Polar regions of Siberia and North America. Nansen was the “Dean” of polar travel and many of the polar explorers, such as Amundsen, Scott, Shackleton and others came to him for counsel and support.

From the Arctic Bibliography, this is the "Narrative of the First Fram Expedition, 1893-1896, led by Nansen, with the object of investigating the Polar basin north of Eurasia by drifting in the ice with the currents northwest from the New Siberian Islands across or near the Pole." There are "descriptions of the voyage in the Fram from Northern Norway across the Kara Sea and then the drift in the polar sea. There is an account of the sledge journey of Nansen and Johansen to the pole, wintering on Franz Josef's Land and to voyage to Norway.

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