Like a modern Viking 32-year-old Nansen set sail from Norway in 1893 to reach the North Pole. Experts warned him that his voyage was tantamount to suicide. Compact and nimble, his ship the Fram had been specially built to withstand the relentless, devastating pressure of the polar ice cap. At the right moment, he intended to strike out into the polar desert and finish the final leg by sledge.Nansen's vivid memoir became an international phenomenon when, having been given up for dead, he emerged three years later. His epic struggle against snowdrifts, ice floes, polar bears, scurvy, gnawing hunger and the loneliness of the polar night would inspire young explorers such as Scott and Amundsen a generation later to make new conquests. This first unabridged edition since 1897 includes photographs not previously published.
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'One of the great epics of polar exploration.' Fergus Fleming; 'The most sensational expedition of the period.' Max Jones, THE; 'If only Scott had paid an equal attention to the necessities of polar travel [as Nansen,] he might not have ended up frozen to the ground.' John Banville Daily Mail
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Höhe: 198 mm
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978-1-78334-093-4 (9781783340934)
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Fridtjof Nansen brought arctic exploration within the realm of possibilities after his sensational expedition on a shoestring (1888) to the forbidding glaciers of Greenland. An adolescent at the time, it made him world-famous and the inspiration for those who came after him, Shackleton, Scott and Amundsen. A scientist, celebrity and unlikely nineteenth-century sex-symbol, he engineered the peaceful secession of Norway from Sweden and later received the Nobel Peace Prize for his refugee work.
The Route of the Fram and Nansen and Johansen's Sledge JourneyPreliminary-Sketch Map of Franz Joseph LandIntroduction by Fergus FlemingThe FramI. IntroductionII. Preparations and EquipmentIII. The StartIV. Farewell to NorwayV. Voyage Through the Kara SeaVI. The Winter NightVII. The Spring and Summer of 1894VIII. Second Autumn in the IceThe Sledge JourneyIX. We Prepare for the Sledge ExpeditionX. The New Year, 1895XI. We Make a StartXII. We Say Good-bye to the FramXIII. A Hard StruggleXIV. By Sledge and KayakXV. Land at LastXVI. The New Year, 1896XVII. The Journey SouthwardConclusion by Fridtjof NansenEndnotesList of Equipment Used for the Sledge Journey
