The First Crossing Of Greenland
The Daring Expedition that Launched Arctic Exploration
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- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
29 November 2023
Summary
Before Fridtjof Nansen’s Greenland expedition of 1888, the vast impenetrable arctic regions exasperated nineteenth-century scientists. The twenty-six-year-old thought he knew better. Convinced that he would succeed by skiing, a sport practically unknown at the time, he put together a group of only six members to cross the arctic interior of Greenland for the first time. They would pull their own sledges and, on a shoe-string, arrange transport to Greenland on two steam liners to drop them off…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781783342303 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1783342307 |
| Author: | Fridtjof Nansen |
| Publisher: | Gibson Square Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Gibson Square Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 29 November 2023 |
| Weight: | 267g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
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‘A modern Viking’ Daily Mail ‘The visionary Norse explorer’ Jon Krakauer
‘Nansen was the last of the Nordic gods… Tall, blond, and ridiculously handsome… The First Crossing Of Greenland is a… thrilling account of his earliest adventure… It was a hideous journey… Hair froze fast to headgear, beards solidified so that the lips could not be opened to speak… Polar exploration tends to attract more testosterone than talent… One man towers over the other ice-encrusted sledgers: Fridtjof Nansen, colossus of the glaciers… Of all the frozen beards… only Nansen communicated a sense of the true subjugation of the ego that endeavour can bring. Failure, he acknowledged, would mean “only disappointed human hopes, nothing more”.’ Sara Wheeler, Guardian; ‘Seminal… demythologised the polar environment and revolutionised modern polar travel with the introduction of skis.’ Roland Huntford, The Times; ‘Nansen defied that conventional wisdom, which dictated explorers proceed from the known to the unknown to maintain a line of retreat, by sailing first to the largely uncharted eastern coast of Greenland.’ Times Higher Education; ‘The visionary Norse explorer.’ Jon Krakauer
About The Author
Fridtjof Nansen
Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) was the spiritual mentor to Amundsen, Scott and Shackleton and single-handedly made polar expeditions as popular as they are now. Drawn to extremes, obstinate and a restless Faustian character, he was a gifted writer, scientist and diplomat who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922.
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