NANSEN, Fridtjof.
"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 with an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup Captain of the Fram.
“THE HIGHEST LATITUDE THEN REACHED BY MAN”: First Edition of Fridtjof NANSEN'S FARTHEST NORTH
Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897.
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First English editions of this "remarkable achievement in Polar exploration" (PMM). Octavo, two volumes, original publisher's pictorial green cloth over boards, front panels blocked in gilt with a design of the Fram to volume one and with design of dogs, sledge and driver to volume two, gilt titles to the spine, tissue-guarded etched portrait frontispiece in volume one and tissue-guarded photogravure frontispiece in volume two. Profusely illustrated with 111 half-tone, lithographic and photogravure plates after J. Nordhagen, H. Egidius, Otto Sinding, et al., 16 color-printed plates, 4 folding color-printed lithographic maps by John Bartholomew & Co, and numerous monochrome illustrations, charts, and diagrams. In very good condition, bookplate to the front pastedown of volume one.
In 1890, Norwegian scientist and explorer Fridtjof Nansen announced an innovative plan for Northern polar expeditions. “His theory, that a drift-current sets across the polar regions from Bering Strait… towards the east coast of Greenland was based on a number of indications… His intention was to get his vessel fixed in the ice to the north of Eastern Siberia and let her drift with it.” Although criticized, his plan succeeded. “His ship, the ‘Fram’ (‘Forward’), was specially built of immense strength and peculiar form” in order to endure the ice-floes. “During the winter of 1894-95 it was decided that an expedition should be made northward over the ice on foot in the spring… Being satisfied that the ‘Fram’ would continue to drift safely,” Nansen led the expedition to 86 degrees North, “the highest latitude then reached by man” (Britannica).
"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 with an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup Captain of the Fram.
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