Farthest North, Vol. II / Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896
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"If Outside magazine had been around during the first turn of the century, Fridtjof Nansen would have been its No. 1 cover boy."-The Chicago Sun-Times In September of 1893, Norwegian zoologist Fridtjof Nansen and crew manned the schooner Fram, intending to drift, frozen in the Arctic pack-ice, to the North Pole. When it became clear that they would miss the pole, Nansen and companion Hjalmar Johansen struck off by themselves. Racing the shrinking pack-ice, they attempted, by dog-sled, to go "farthest north." They survived a winter in a moss hut eating walruses and polar bears, and the public a...
Chapters (54)
- Illustrations in Vol. II.
- Colored Plates in Vol. II.
- Farthest North Chapter I We Prepare for the Sledge Expedition
- Chapter II The New Year, 1895
- Chapter III We Make a Start
- Chapter IV We Say Good-bye to the “Fram”
- Chapter V A Hard Struggle
- Chapter VI By Sledge and Kayak
- Chapter VII Land at Last
- Chapter VIII The New Year, 1896
- Chapter IX The Journey Southward
- The Mean Temperature of Every Month during Nansen and Johansen’s Sledge Journey
- Appendix Report of Captain Otto Sverdrup on the Drifting of the “Fram” from March 14, 1895
- Chapter I March 15 to June 22, 1895
- Chapter II June 22 to August 15, 1895
- Chapter III August 15 to January 1, 1896
- Chapter IV January 1 to May 17, 1896
- Chapter V The Third Summer
- Conclusion
- Mean Temperatures (Fahr.) for every Month during the Drift of the “Fram”
- Continuous Periods of Temperature under -40°
- The Mean Temperature of the Twenty-four Hours for these Periods
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z
- TRAVEL, EXPLORATION, and DESCRIPTION A SELECT LIST OF BOOKS
- Colophon
- Availability
- Encoding
- Revision History
- External References
- Corrections
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