Full name: Farthest North: The Epic Adventure of a Visionary Explorer

Author: Fridtjof Nansen Year: 1897 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Travel, Memoirs, Adventure, Non Fiction, History Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads Barns&Noble Google Books eBooks.com ManyBooks LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781602392373 1602392374

"If Outside magazine had been around during the first turn of the century, Fridtjof Nansen would have been its No. 1 cover boy."ÑThe 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. Nansen's narrative stands with the best writing on polar exploration. 20 b/w photographs. Similar books: Karluk by William Laird McKinlay Ninety Degrees North by Fergus Fleming The Ice Master by Jennifer Niven Barrow's Boys by Fergus Fleming Ghosts of Cape Sabine by Leonard F. Guttridge The North Pole by Robert E. Peary Weird and Tragic Shores by Chauncey Loomis Journey to the Polar Sea by John Franklin Arctic Labyrinth by Glyn Williams In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides In the Land of White Death by Valerian Albanov Across the Top of the World by James P. Delgado Alive by Piers Paul Read South by Ernest Shackleton Turn Right at Machu Picchu by Mark Adams Passage to Juneau by Jonathan Raban On the Trail of Genghis Khan by Tim Cope Great Plains by Ian Frazier The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert Rolling Nowhere by Ted Conover