Nansen
the explorer as hero
$55.54
- Paperback
768 pages
- Release Date
19 February 2001
Summary
Fridtjof Nansen: The Spirit Behind Polar Exploration
Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar exploration, the last act of territorial discovery before the leap into space began.
Nansen was a prime illustration of Carlyle’s dictum that ‘the history of the world is but the biograph…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349114927 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349114927 |
| Author: | Roland Huntford |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 768 |
| Release Date: | 19 February 2001 |
| Weight: | 528g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 35mm |
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Roland Huntford has captured something of the restless romantic within. It is an accomplished biography at every level.– SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
[NANSEN] is a rare thing, a work of immense scholarship blazing with insight… - Beryl Bainbridge, LITERARY REVIEW
[Huntford’s] NANSEN has been longawaited. It is a triumph … a hugely satisfying biography - Paul Theroux, GUARDIANIt is a book which takes us outward through the life of another and from there inward into our own. What more can you ask of a biography? - DAILY TELEGRAPHRoland Huntford has captured something of the restless romantic within. It is an accomplished biography at every level. - SUNDAY TELEGRAPHAbout The Author
Roland Huntford
Roland Huntford is the author of two best-selling polar biographies, SHACKLETON (1985) and SCOTT AND AMUNDSEN (1979), filmed for TV as the acclaimed series THE LAST PLACE ON EARTH. He was the London OBSERVER’s Scandinavian correspondent & speaks fluent Norwegian.
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