Quote:
Originally Posted by Little.Egret
Flying Fish reprints
Farthest North - Volumes One and Two (Illustrated) by Fridtjof Nansen
Arctic exploration - the voyage of the Fram - most reprints only have volume 1
In 1893 Fridtjof Nansen set sail for the North Pole in the Fram, a ship specially designed to be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures, and travel north with the sea's drift. Experts said that such a ship couldn't be built and that the mission was tantamount to suicide. Farthest North, first published in 1897 to great popular acclaim, is the stirring, first-person account of the Fram and her historic voyage. Nansen tells of his expedition's struggle against snowdrifts, ice floes, polar bears, scurvy, gnawing hunger, and the seemingly endless polar night that transformed the Fram into a "cold prison of loneliness." Once it became clear that the Fram could drift no farther, Nansen and crew member Hjalmar Johansen set out on a harrowing fifteen-month sledge journey to reach their destination by foot, which required them to share a sleeping bag of rotting reindeer fur and to feed the weaker sled dogs to the stronger ones. In the end they traveled 146 miles farther north than any Westerner had gone before, representing the greatest single gain in polar exploration in four centuries.
In Northern Mists - Volumes One and Two (Illustrated) by Fridtjof Nansen
a history of arctic voyages was in the first place to make clear the main features in the development of knowledge of the North in early times. By tracing how ideas of the Northern World, appearing first in a dim twilight, change from age to age, how the old myths and creations of the imagination are constantly recurring, sometimes in new shapes, and how new ones are added to them, we have a curious insight into the working of the human mind in its endeavour to subject to itself the world and the universe.
The South Pole - Volumes One and Two (Illustrated) by Roald Amundsen
See all 151
http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-...=flying%20fish
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=searc...=flying%20fish
http://www.amazon.ca/s/?url=search-a...=flying%20fish
|
I've had a look at several of these books and unfortunately all seem to be very poorly formatted. The versions in the MR library are a lot better.