Farthest north : the greatest adventure of all time
Nansen, Fridtjof, 1861-19302024
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In 1893 Fridtjof Nansen set sail for the North Pole in the Fram, a ship specially designed to be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures and drift to the North Pole as a scientific experiment to prove that the polar cap was a sheet of ice floating on the oceans. Experts said that such a mission was tantamount to suicide. His disappearance for three years created such a media sensation that when he was found paddling back to civilisation dressed in walrus skin his stirring first-person account of the expedition's historic achievements became an instant international bestseller, the first of its kind!
Main title:
Farthest north : the greatest adventure of all time / Fridtjof Nansen.
Author:
Nansen, Fridtjof, 1861-1930, author
Imprint:
London : Gibson Square, 2024.
Collation:
400 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781783342457 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
919.804919.804 NANS
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2921101
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