Synopsis
First successful crossing of Greenland whose reliance on skis was the launching pad for modern polar expeditions by Nansen, Scott and Amundsen. After the successful publication of his biography (1998) and his brilliant polar journal Farthest North (2000), Nansen has in the past years recaptured his reputation as 'a modern Viking' (Daily Mail) which he enjoyed a century ago. This book is an abridgement of the two volumes of journals he edited of his daring crossing of the icy, treacherous snow plains of Greenland. At the time no one had ever succeeded in penetrating the depths of Greenland and his ideas for crossing, upwards with dogs, which would be eaten on the way, and downwards by skiing, were received with scathing contempt as contemporary thinking favoured large expenditions with numerous servants for survival.
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Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), mentor to Amundsen, Scott and Shackleton, single-handedly made polar expeditions as popular as they are now. Drawn to extremes and a restless Faustian character, he was a gifted writer, scientist and diplomat who received the Nobel Peace Prize.
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