Farthest North by Fridtjof Nansen, Fergus Fleming - 9781783342457

Gibson Square Books Ltd

Farthest NorthThe Greatest Arctic Adventure Story\nAuthor(s): Fridtjof Nansen, Fergus Fleming\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Gibson Square Books Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Gibson Square Books Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781783342457, 978-1783342457\nSynopsis\nLike a modern Viking 32-year-old Nansen set sail from Norway in 1893 to reach the North Pole. Experts warned him that his voyage was tantamount to suicide. Compact and nimble, his ship the Fram had been specially built to withstand the relentless, devastating pressure of the polar ice cap. At the right moment, he intended to strike out into the polar desert and finish the final leg by [url] vivid memoir became an international phenomenon when, having been given up for dead, he emerged three years later. His epic struggle against snowdrifts, ice floes, polar bears, scurvy, gnawing hunger and the loneliness of the polar night would inspire young explorers such as Scott and Amundsen a generation later to make new conquests. This first unabri.