Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 18931896 Vol I Fridtjof Nansen Books
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Great book on adventures in the Arctic. If you like this book you will also want to read the following 99 cent books on Arctic adventures:1 A Winter Circuit of Our Arctic Coast: A Narrative of a Journey with Dog-sleds Around the Entire Arctic Coast of Alaska (1920)
2 Hunters of the Great North (1922) (Interactive Table of Contents)
3 An Eskimo Village (1920)
4 My Arctic Journal: A Year Among Ice-fields and Eskimos (1894)
5 A Year with a Whaler (1919)
6 By Eskimo Dog-sled and Kayak (1919)
7 Forty-two Years Amongst the Indians and Eskimo: Pictures from the Life of the Right Reverend John Horden, First Bishop of Moosonee (1893) (Active Table of Contents)
8 Journey from Great Bear Lake to Wollaston Land and Recent Explorations along the South and East Coast of Victoria Land (1852)
9 Robert Peary's Short Narrative of His "GREAT WHITE JOURNEY" across Greenland (1894)
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Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 18931896 Vol I Fridtjof Nansen Books Reviews
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Read how these guys deliberately got their ship stuck fast in Arctic ice, and then sat in it month after month hoping it would drift to the North Pole. Years of careful planning preceeded this expedition. The "Fram" was the sturdiest ship afloat since Noah's Ark, specially designed to withstand the enormous pressures of compacting ice, which would relentlessly crush ordinary wooden ships. Nansen calculated that the currents of the Polar Sea would eventually carry them to the vicinity of the pole, and supplied the "Fram" with enough provisions to last its crew of 13 for several years. This narrative describes, at length and in detail, the story of that drift. Months go by without much northward progress, and the author's mood swings between hope and depression. Meanwhile, there are encounters with polar bears, foxes, seals, walrus, and rare birds, all of which the adventurers try to kill. Terrible storms come and go, polar day gives way to polar night a couple times. The sled dogs have puppies, bite each other to death, and bark at the bears. Everyone stays safe and warm in the cozy little ship, with plenty of food and laughs. Nansen faithfully keeps up his diary. Nothing much happens. It just goes on and on. Eventually the explorer gets such a bad case of cabin fever that he decides to leave the ship, and, with one man and a team of dogs, strikes out across the ice in the direction of Santa's Workshop. Here Volume I abruptly ends.
Volume II promises to complete the story, and if I find time on my hands I might read it, but don't hold your breath. Since the story is an important part of the history of Arctic exploration, it's required reading for afficionados of that subject. If you want a fast-paced and exciting read, however, you can skip this one.
If Arctic exploration is your interest, this book adds to the adventure and understanding of the hardships and personal rewards of human exploration. Do not miss out on this well written and exciting narrative.
Nansen's book is a classic tale of polar exploration not only it is a great story per se, but also incredibly well-written. The only downside of the public domain editon is the lack of pictures. One wishes to have a look at the Fram and Nansen's plates, but they just aren't there.
This is a surprisingly good read. Nothing much happens in Volume 1 but Nansen besides being a great explorer and scientist was a thoughtful writer and even being stuck on a ship in the ice can be a fascinating experience. The original was apparently written in Norwegian and then translated into English but whoever translated it made a great job of it. I am looking forward to reading Volume II.
Great book on adventures in the Arctic. If you like this book you will also want to read the following 99 cent books on Arctic adventures
1 A Winter Circuit of Our Arctic Coast A Narrative of a Journey with Dog-sleds Around the Entire Arctic Coast of Alaska (1920)
2 Hunters of the Great North (1922) (Interactive Table of Contents)
3 An Eskimo Village (1920)
4 My Arctic Journal A Year Among Ice-fields and Eskimos (1894)
5 A Year with a Whaler (1919)
6 By Eskimo Dog-sled and Kayak (1919)
7 Forty-two Years Amongst the Indians and Eskimo Pictures from the Life of the Right Reverend John Horden, First Bishop of Moosonee (1893) (Active Table of Contents)
8 Journey from Great Bear Lake to Wollaston Land and Recent Explorations along the South and East Coast of Victoria Land (1852)
9 Robert Peary's Short Narrative of His "GREAT WHITE JOURNEY" across Greenland (1894)
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