Farthest North: The Incredible Three-Year Voyage to the Frozen Latitides of the North

History

Fridtjof, Nansen

Europe

Modern Library

In Northern Mists; Arctic Exploration in Early Times

Arctic & Antarctica

Wentworth Press

Nansen's three-year expedition to the North Pole with the Fram marked the beginning of the modern age of exploration. This book is an account, by Freidtjof Nansen, of that expedition. It describes his plan, ridiculed by his peers, to allow the specially designed Fram to become frozen in the treacherous pack ice of the Arctic Oceans. Drifting with the current, he and his crew of twelve would be carried to the Pole. Unfazed by the discovery that the plan is a failure, he sets out with a fellow crew member to cover the remaining distance across the ice on foot. It was to take them a further harrowing fifteen months during which they shared a sleeping bag of rotting reindeer fur and were forced to feed the weaker sled dogs to the stronger ones. They were to travel 146 miles farther north than any Westerner had gone before, representing one of the greatest single gains in polar exploration in four centuries.

Farthest North

Travel

Duckworth Publishing

Text: English, Norwegian (translation)

In northern mists;: Arctic exploration in early times

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Greenwood Press

Brenda Ueland, author of the best book on writing ever written, (Carl Sandburg on If You Want to Write), and patron saint of all aspiring writers, was the recipient of more than 30 love letters from the Norwegian explorer, humanitarian and winner of the 1922 Nobel Peace Prize Fridtjof Nansen. The two met in New York City in 1929. They had a brief love affair and a year long correspondence until his death. Brenda, My Darling presents Nansen s letters to Ueland, (hers to him are lost) and a sampling of Ueland s published work and unpublished diaries. Nansen s love letters are some of the most passionate, candid and eloquent in the English language.
 From the Foreword, by Nansen biographer Per Egil Hegge: These love letters from Fridtjof Nansen to Brenda Ueland make for compelling reading. Nansen s fiery confessions of his great love for Ueland would have been considered semi-pornographic only a half century ago. The Norwegian saying when the old house catches fire, it burns with great heat, fully applies. But, because the letters are so earnest, so intense and so beautifully written, it is more appropriate to classify them as literature - a true love song...

Brenda, My Darling

BRENDA UELAND

Eric Utne

Per Egil Hegge

Utne Institute

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As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)

The First Crossing of Greenland

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... spot, for there was an excellent and well-protected harbour with a good piece of beach for their skin-boats, and, as I have said, the situation was charming. The five flat stones which were standing upright and first drew our attention to the place were long a riddle to me, but after I had had some conversation with Captain Holm on the subject, I was inclined to the view that they were stocks for the " umiaks," or large skin-boats, that is to say, supports on which the boats are raised to be dried, and to which they are fastened when laid up for the winter. There are besides many other traces of human occupation on these islands, which are, as a matter of fact, not one island, as they are given on Holm's map, but two, divided by a narrow sound, and the outer being the smaller. On several of the points also I found similar cairns of stones, or, as I suppose, remains of old fox-traps. By the outermost islet off Igdloluarsuk we found the mouth of the fjord so full of huge icebergs that we had to go seawards to find a practicable passage. On our way we tried to push between the icebergs, but were soon stopped. The floes get jammed so fast in between these monsters by the furious current that there is no possibility of moving them. So we had to return once more and go further out to sea. If in ordinary ice it is necessary to get a look ahead from some high-lying point, it is no less necessary to take the same measures among icebergs such as these. So whenever we came across one that was easily accessible we naturally mounted it at once. Imposing as these floating monsters look from below, when one rows beneath them, the effect, as far as regards their magnitude, is nothing to that produced when one sees them from above. One we ascended at...

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The First Crossing of Greenland (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The First Crossing of GreenlandThe Bladder-nose Seal, and Life on the fawn, have been slightly abridged, and the historical chapters dealing with previous attempts to penetrate the ice-belt of the east coast of Greenland, and to explore the Inland ice, have been omitted altogether. On the other hand, the introduction, and the chapters dealing with the attempts to land, the drifting.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Through Siberia: The Land of the Future It may be hoped, therefore, that efforts will be made next season to take advantage of the experience of Dr. Nansen and his companions and to establish regular communication between the Kara Sea and Western Europe, during the months in which that sea is avail able to navigation. While everything that leads to a better knowledge and understanding of our Russian Allies and their country cannot fail to interest us, it is in particular the practical consideration referred to - namely, the possibility of increasing our food-supply by a new route - that has led the publisher to issue this book at the present juncture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Through Siberia: The Land of the Future (Classic Reprint)

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Farthest North: The Incredible Three-Year Voyage to the Frozen Latitides of the North

In Northern Mists; Arctic Exploration in Early Times

Farthest North

In northern mists;: Arctic exploration in early times

Brenda, My Darling

In Northern Mists; Arctic Exploration in Early Times

In Northern Mists; Arctic Exploration in Early Times

The First Crossing of Greenland

The First Crossing of Greenland (Classic Reprint)

Through Siberia: The Land of the Future (Classic Reprint)