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Can I read Farthest North: The Incredible Three-Year Voyage to the Frozen Latitudes of the North on EtoBox?
Farthest North: The Incredible Three-Year Voyage to the Frozen Latitudes of the North by Nansen, Fridtjof is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Farthest North: The Incredible Three-Year Voyage to the Frozen Latitudes of the North about?
Roland HuntfordBy the end of the nineteenth century, most of the world had been explored. After the scramble for Africa, the polar regions were the last great blanks upon the map. They saw the last act of terrestrial discovery before the leap into space. Farthest North is part of that record. Its author was a hero of his times. Like Henrik Ibsen and Edvard Grieg, Fridtjof Nansen was one of the celebrated Norwegians who emerged from northern mists and helped to mold the age. Born on October 10, 1861, he belonged to the extraordinary Norwegian renaissance of the nineteenth century. He was an example of a great man from a small country. He was the father of modern polar exploration. Farthest North is the tale of his revolutionary attempt to reach the North Pole.
Who reads Farthest North: The Incredible Three-Year Voyage to the Frozen Latitudes of the North?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Nansen, Fridtjof
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group;The Modern Library
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780375505331
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Travel, World History