Fridtjof Nansen

Este libro descubre la expedición del barco noruego Fram de 1893 a 1896 en una de las regiones más inhóspitas de nuestro planeta. Para demostrar su teoría de que una corriente marina permitía cruzar el Círculo Polar Ártico, Nansen y sus compañeros se dejaron atrapar por los hielos y siguieron la deriva del casquete polar durante tres años. 

Nansens "Fram" expedition was an attempt by the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen to reach the geographical North Pole by harnessing the natural east-west current of the Arctic Ocean. Despite much discouragement from other polar explorers, in 1893, Nansen took his schooner "Fram", specially designed to withstand the relentless chalenges of the poles, to the New Siberian Islands in the eastern Arctic Ocean, froze her into the pack ice, and waited for the drift to carry her towards the North Pole.Three years later, Frederick Jackson, who had organized his own expedition to Franz Josef Land, was astonished to see "a tall man, wearing a soft felt hat, loosely made, voluminous clothes and long shaggy hair and beard, all reeking with black grease". After a moments awkward hesitation, Jackson recognized his visitor: "You are Nansen, arent you?", and received the reply "Yes, I am Nansen."Nansens first task on his return was to write his account of the voyage. This he did remarkably quickly, producing 300,000 words of Norwegian text by November 1896; the English translation, titled "Farthest North" was ready in January 1897. The book was an instant success, and secured Nansens long-term financial future. Although Nansen retired from exploration after this expedition, the methods of travel and survival he developed with Johansen influenced all the polar expeditions, north and south, which followed in the subsequent three decades.In his brilliant and spellbound first-person account of this epic polar expedition, Nansen vividly describes the dangerous voyage he took with his crew in the "Fram", and the 15-month-long attempt to reach the North Pole by sledge, when realizing that the ship would not drift to the pole, he departed with Johansen alone and faced on foot the drifting ice, violent storms, the extreme cold of the Arctic winter and the attacks of wild animals, like polar bears and walruses. "Farthest North" is an unforgettable tale and a unique chance to accompany one of the worlds greatest explorers on one of historys most daring expeditions.

After the successful publication of his biography (1998) and his brilliant polar journal Farthest North (2000), Fridtjof Nansen has in the past years recaptured his reputation as a modern Viking (Daily Mail) which he enjoyed a century ago. This book is an abridgement of the two volumes of journals he edited of his daring crossing of the icy, treacherous snow plains of Greenland. At the time, before his famous arctic journey, no one had ever succeeded in penetrating the depths of Greenland. His ideas for crossing, upwards with dogs which would be eaten on the way, and downwards by skiing, were received with scathing contempt as contemporary thinking favoured large expeditions with numerous servants for survival.

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 Pole. Experts said that such a mission was tantamount to suicide, but this is the stirring first-person account of its historic success. Nansen tells of his expeditions struggle against snowdrifts, ice floes, polar bears, scurvy, gnawing hunger, and the seemingly endless polar night that transformed the Fram into a "cold prison of loneliness." Setting out in the end on a harrowing fifteen-month sledge journey to reach his destination by foot, he was required to share a sleeping bag of rotting reindeer fur and to feed the weaker sled dogs to the stronger ones. This edition contains new abridgement from the original famous two volumes (1896).

En 1890, Fridtjof Nansen, fort de sa réussite de la traversée de la banquise du Groenland, présenta un projet d’expédition polaire à la conquête du Pôle Nord à la Société géographique norvégienne et,

Nansens "Fram" expedition was an attempt by the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen to reach the geographical North Pole by harnessing the natural eastwest current of the Arctic Ocean. In the face of much discouragement from other polar explorers, in 1893, Nansen took his ship "Fram" to the New Siberian Islands in the eastern Arctic Ocean, froze her into the pack ice, and waited for the drift to carry her towards the pole.Three years later, Frederick Jackson, who had organised his own expedition to Franz Josef Land, was astonished to see"saw "a tall man, wearing a soft felt hat, loosely made, voluminous clothes and long shaggy hair and beard, all reeking with black grease". After a moments awkward hesitation, Jackson recognized his visitor: "You are Nansen, arent you?", and received the reply "Yes, I am Nansen."Nansens first task on his return was to write his account of his voyage. This he did remarkably quickly, producing 300,000 words of Norwegian text by November 1896; the English translation, titled was ready in January 1897. The book was an instant success, and secured Nansens long-term financial future.Although Nansen retired from exploration after this expedition, the methods of travel and survival he developed with Johansen influenced all the polar expeditions, north and south, which followed in the subsequent three decades.

« Le 24 juin 1893, en Norvège, le jour de la fête de l’été. Pour nous, il arrive plein de tristesse. C’est le moment du départ. Je quitte ma maison, et seul je descends à travers le jardin vers la gr

« En avant ! » C’est ainsi que le grand explorateur Nansen décide de baptiser son navire, le Fram en norvégien, avec lequel il tente d’atteindre le pôle Nord en 1893. Bêtes sauvages ou température ex

"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 assumed they were dead. In the spring of 1896, after three years of trekking, and having made it to within four degrees of the pole, they returned to safety. Nansens narrative stands with the best writing on polar exploration. 20 b/w photographs.Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

For one whole winter we were cut off from the world and immured among the Greenlanders. I dwelt in their huts, took part in their hunting, and tried, as well as I could, to live their life and learn their language. But one winter, unfortunately, is far too short a time in which to attain a thorough knowledge of so peculiar a people, its civilisation, and its ways of thoughtthat would require years of patient study. Nevertheless, I have tried in this book to record the impressions made upon me by the Eskimo and his polity, and have sought, as far as possible, to support them by quotations from former authors. There may even be things which a newcomer sees more clearly than an observer of many years standing, who lives in their midst.

Neu gesetzte Leseausgabe in moderner Schrift mit einem Nachwort von Tobias Wimbauer"Dieser Bericht uber meine ersten Erlebnisse im Eismeer ist zum groen Teil eine Wiedergabe des Tagebuchs, das der damals - 1882 - noch sehr junge Verfasser gefuhrt hat ... Dieses Buch ... versucht auch die Anschauungen uber Erscheinungen und Verhaltnisse in jener Eiswelt darzustellen, zu denen die Forschungen eines ganzen Lebens gefuhrt haben."

L’expédition de M. Nansen au Grönland est une des explorations les plus hardies, les plus fécondes en résultats, entreprises depuis longtemps dans les régions arctiques. Pour la première fois, l’imme

Farthest North (Vol. 1 & 2) narrates Fridtjof Nansens 18931896 expedition aboard the ice-strong Fram, conceived to ride the Arctic pack toward the Pole. Blending ships log, scientific tables, and spare, luminous description, Nansen documents meteorological and oceanographic measurements, the routines of overwintering, and the bold sledge attempt with Hjalmar Johansen to 8614 N, followed by a frugal winter on Franz Josef Land and rescue by Frederick G. Jacksonan emblematic fusion of heroic travel writing and emergent field science. A Norwegian zoologist who became an oceanographer and statesman, Nansen had tested minimalist polar method on the 1888 ski crossing of Greenland. His transpolar-drift hypothesisshaped by the Jeannettes relics and Siberian driftwoodprompted Colin Archers radical hull and the Frams experimental drift. Trained in observation and physiology, Nansen framed exploration as disciplined science under constraint, a stance later echoed in his oceanographic work and, in a different register, in the humanitarian leadership that earned him the 1922 Nobel Peace Prize. Recommended to historians of science, polar studies, and adventure literature, these volumes offer primary data and pellucid prosea rigorous, quietly gripping study in planning, endurance, and the ethics of risk.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Farthest North (The Complete Two-Volume Edition) chronicles Nansens 18931896 Fram expedition, designed to ride the transpolar drift toward the Pole. From deliberate besetment to the sledge bid with Hjalmar Johansenreaching 8613 Nand a winter on Franz Josef Land, the book fuses logbook precision with luminous, stoic prose. Embedded are rigorous observations in oceanography, meteorology, and natural history, supported by maps and plates. Composed in the findesiecle heroic age, it redefines Arctic exploration as disciplined science rather than mere spectacle. Trained as a zoologist and pioneering oceanographerand already famed for the 1888 Greenland crossingNansen built the iceworthy Fram with Colin Archer to test a drift theory sparked by debris from the Jeannette wreck. His empirical temperament and nationbuilding ambitions in a modernizing Norway later broadened into humanitarian diplomacy, culminating in the 1922 Nobel Peace Prize. The expeditions pages reveal a mind attuned to data, endurance, and the ethics of leadership in polar uncertainty. This complete edition is indispensable for readers of exploration literature, historians of science, and environmental humanists alike. It offers a rare synthesis of adventure and method, rich documentation, and reflective insightan enduring benchmark for understanding the Arctic as laboratory, landscape, and moral test.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Le récit par Fridtjof Nansen, le responsable de lexpédition, de la première traversée du Groenland. Nansen, norvégien habitué aux conditions hivernales de son pays, aux techniques de ski, et au matér

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