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Can I read Ice Ship : the Epic Voyages of the Polar Adventurer Fram on EtoBox?
Ice Ship : the Epic Voyages of the Polar Adventurer Fram by Charles W. Johnson, Charles W. Johnson is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Ice Ship : the Epic Voyages of the Polar Adventurer Fram about?
In the golden age of polar exploration (from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s), many an expedition set out to answer the big questionÑwas the Arctic a continent, an open ocean beyond a barrier of ice, or an ocean covered with ice? No one knew, for the ice had kept its secret well; ships trying to penetrate it all failed, often catastrophically. NorwayÕs charismatic scientist-explorer Fridtjof Nansen, convinced that it was a frozen ocean, intended to prove it in a novel if risky way: by building
Who reads Ice Ship : the Epic Voyages of the Polar Adventurer Fram?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Charles W. Johnson, Charles W. Johnson
- Publisher
- ForeEdge an Imprint of University Press of New England
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781611686043
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Travel, History
- Rating
- 4.27 / 5 (10 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14