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Farthest North

The Voyage and Exploration of the Fram and the Fifteen Month's Expedition

By (author) Fridtjof Nansen
Introduction by Fergus Fleming
Genres: Expeditions
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Gibson Square Books Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Published: 26th Jan 2017
Dimensions: w 130mm h 197mm d 38mm
Weight: 414g
ISBN-10: 1783340932
ISBN-13: 9781783340934
Barcode No: 9781783340934
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Synopsis
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