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My Farthest North
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Author : Annette Freeman
language : en
Publisher: Ben Hyron's Cottage Pty Limited
Release Date : 2013-03
My Farthest North written by Annette Freeman and has been published by Ben Hyron's Cottage Pty Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03 with categories.
During three weeks in the High Arctic our heroine reaches her ‘farthest north’ as well as her ‘coldest north’. With a wry sense of humour, this fictionalised memoir introduces us to a diverse cast of characters, including polar bears, reindeers, walrus, a Polish Arctic explorer, a Russian sea captain, a quirky expedition leader ... and the shadowy Eduardo. As she journeys on, our narrator tells Eduardo about everything she is seeing, experiencing, learning and reading. We learn gradually that Eduardo is stuck in his office and couldn’t make the trip with her. Are they lovers? In northern Norway, night disappears along with the 3G signal. Bravely facing the rickety steps down the side of the ship to the inflatable dinghy, learning to make wet landings, and how to – and how not to – approach walrus, our narrator learns a few things about herself and the difficulty of remaining cheerful in spite of a very cold butt. In Svalbard, euphoria at a polar bear sighting gives way to a ho-hum glacier expedition. In Greenland, Heidi the Inuit Girl welcomes the expeditioners in full traditional dress and with walrus canapes, and an Inuit grandmother offers roasted polar bear. In Iceland various threatened species adorn the café menus. In reading our heroine’s journal written for Eduardo, we are eavesdroppers on her uncensored thoughts. Her bouts of bad temper and her unreasonable expectations are all here, along with her wry assessments of her fellow Arctic travellers. If you’ve ever wondered what it was like to sit in a small boat above the Arctic Circle, with nothing around you but fog, the disappearing sea ice, the chance of a bear sighting and a severe bout of unrequited love, this story is for you.
Farthest North
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Author : Fridtjof Nansen
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2018-09-21
Farthest North written by Fridtjof Nansen and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-21 with Fiction categories.
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Farthest North
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Author : Fridjtof Nansen
language : en
Publisher: Modern Library
Release Date : 2000-05-12
Farthest North written by Fridjtof Nansen and has been published by Modern Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-05-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In 1893 Nansen set sail in the Fram, a ship specially designed and built to be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures, and travel with the sea's drift closer to the North Pole than anyone had ever gone before. Experts said such a ship couldn't be built and that the voyage was tantamount to suicide. This brilliant first-person account, originally published in 1897, marks the beginning of the modern age of exploration. Nansen vividly describes the dangerous voyage and his 15-month-long dash to the North Pole by sledge. An unforgettable tale and a must-read for any armchair explorer.
Farthest North Vol 1 2
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Author : Fridtjof Nansen
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2023-12-27
Farthest North Vol 1 2 written by Fridtjof Nansen and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: The memoirs by Fridtjof Nansen tell about the epoch-making attempt to reach the North Pole, which ended in the farthest northern journey in the history of his time. Fridtjof Nansen had an extraordinary idea of how to get to the North Pole by ship. After discovering that the remains of the boat, wrecked near Russian Siberia, were found in the Northern Atlantic, he presumed that there should be some drift through the North Pole. So, he developed a specifically customized ship that was frozen into an ice cube and crossed the Polar waters in this shape. The vessel did freeze successfully. Yet, the journey was too long, and Nansen left the ship to reach the Pole on skis. He and his companion Hjalmar Johansen left for the pole but didn't manage to get it. However, they were the first people to achieve the farthest north latitude of 86°13.6′N. The story tells about this challenging journey through snow and waters makes a unique record of one of the most incredible northern expeditions.
Farthest North The Complete Two Volume Edition
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Author : Fridtjof Nansen
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2023-12-28
Farthest North The Complete Two Volume Edition written by Fridtjof Nansen and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The memoirs by Fridtjof Nansen tell about the epoch-making attempt to reach the North Pole, which ended in the farthest northern journey in the history of his time. Fridtjof Nansen had an extraordinary idea of how to get to the North Pole by ship. After discovering that the remains of the boat, wrecked near Russian Siberia, were found in the Northern Atlantic, he presumed that there should be some drift through the North Pole. So, he developed a specifically customized ship that was frozen into an ice cube and crossed the Polar waters in this shape. The vessel did freeze successfully. Yet, the journey was too long, and Nansen left the ship to reach the Pole on skis. He and his companion Hjalmar Johansen left for the pole but didn't manage to get it. However, they were the first people to achieve the farthest north latitude of 86°13.6′N. The story tells about this challenging journey through snow and waters makes a unique record of one of the most incredible northern expeditions.
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 Complete
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Author : Fridtjof Nansen
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 1897
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 Complete written by Fridtjof Nansen and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with "Fram" Expedition categories.
Unseen and untrodden under their spotless mantle of ice the rigid polar regions slept the profound sleep of death from the earliest dawn of time. Wrapped in his white shroud, the mighty giant stretched his clammy ice-limbs abroad, and dreamed his age-long dreams. Ages passed—deep was the silence. Then, in the dawn of history, far away in the south, the awakening spirit of man reared its head on high and gazed over the earth. To the south it encountered warmth, to the north, cold; and behind the boundaries of the unknown it placed in imagination the twin kingdoms of consuming heat and of deadly cold. But the limits of the unknown had to recede step by step before the ever-increasing yearning after light and knowledge of the human mind, till they made a stand in the north at the threshold of Nature’s great Ice Temple of the polar regions with their endless silence. Up to this point no insuperable obstacles had opposed the progress of the advancing hosts, which confidently proceeded on their way. But here the ramparts of ice and the long darkness of winter brought them to bay. Host after host marched on towards the north, only to suffer defeat. Fresh ranks stood ever ready to advance over the bodies of their predecessors. Shrouded in fog lay the mythic land of Nivlheim, where the “Rimturser”1 carried on their wild gambols. Why did we continually return to the attack? There in the darkness and cold stood Helheim, where the death-goddess held her sway; there lay Nåstrand, the shore of corpses. Thither, where no living being could draw breath, thither troop after troop made its way. To what end? Was it to bring home the dead, as did Hermod when he rode after Baldur? No! It was simply to satisfy man’s thirst for knowledge. Nowhere, in truth, has knowledge been purchased at greater cost of privation and suffering. But the spirit of mankind will never rest till every spot of these regions has been trodden by the foot of man, till every enigma has been solved. Minute by minute, degree by degree, we have stolen forward, with painful effort. Slowly the day has approached; even now we are but in its early dawn; darkness still broods over vast tracts around the Pole. Our ancestors, the old Vikings, were the first Arctic voyagers. It has been said that their expeditions to the frozen sea were of no moment, as they have left no enduring marks behind them. This, however, is scarcely correct. Just as surely as the whalers of our age, in their persistent struggles with ice and sea, form our outposts of investigation up in the north, so were the old Northmen, with Eric the Red, Leif, and others at their head, the pioneers of the polar expeditions of future generations.
Farthest North
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Author : Fridtjof Nansen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
Farthest North written by Fridtjof Nansen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with "Fram" Expedition categories.
Farthest North
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Author : Fridtjof Nansen
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2018-09-21
Farthest North written by Fridtjof Nansen and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-21 with Fiction categories.
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The North Pole Illustrated
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Author : Robert E. Peary
language : en
Publisher: BookRix
Release Date : 2014-03-22
The North Pole Illustrated written by Robert E. Peary and has been published by BookRix this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-22 with History categories.
"The North Pole" is Capt. Robert E. Peary's personal account of his expedition to attempt to be the first Man to reach the Geographic North Pole. Peary achieved his dream in 1909 (although doubt has subsequently been raised as to whether he actually arrived at the Pole itself, or only got within 5 miles of it.) To his horror, on returning from the Arctic Peary discovered that Frederick Cook, his companion from a previous trip to the Arctic was claiming to have beaten him to the Pole by an entire year. The Scientific and Geographic Community cast great doubt on Cook's claim, and threw their weight behind Peary, but the controversy raged for years. Nonetheless, Peary retained a strong claim to have been the first man to reach the North Pole, pioneering the use of the customs and practices of the Native Eskimo people to achieve his aim. This book is testament to his incredible grit and determination to achieve his goal, and as well as the text it contains a variety of original photographs from the expedition. with introduction by President Theodore Roosevelt
Farthest North Being The Record Of A Voyage Of Exploration Of The Ship Fram 1893 96
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Author : Fridtjof Nansen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
Farthest North Being The Record Of A Voyage Of Exploration Of The Ship Fram 1893 96 written by Fridtjof Nansen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Arctic regions categories.