Fridtiof Nansen, 1861-1893Longmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 402 pages Biographical accounts up to the time of commencement of the first Fram expedition, 1893-96. |
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... Illustrations and a Map . Crown 8vo . 3s . 6d . ESKIMO LIFE . With 31 Illustrations . 8vo . 16s . LONGMANS , GREEN , & CO . London , New York , and Bombay . 1861-1893 BY BROGGER AND NORDAHL ROLFSEN TRANSLATED BY WILLIAM ARCHER.
... Illustrations and a Map . Crown 8vo . 3s . 6d . ESKIMO LIFE . With 31 Illustrations . 8vo . 16s . LONGMANS , GREEN , & CO . London , New York , and Bombay . 1861-1893 BY BROGGER AND NORDAHL ROLFSEN TRANSLATED BY WILLIAM ARCHER.
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... Eskimos had early experience both of fasting and voracity . Their unsavoury domestic arrangements could not dismay one who himself , during his nocturnal meals in the forest , had many a time picked . up a stick from the ground and ...
... Eskimos had early experience both of fasting and voracity . Their unsavoury domestic arrangements could not dismay one who himself , during his nocturnal meals in the forest , had many a time picked . up a stick from the ground and ...
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... Eskimos manage to support life on the coasts of this country , carrying on a desperate struggle for existence by means of seal- and whale - hunting and fishing . They are kindly , amiable , children of nature , who , like all such races ...
... Eskimos manage to support life on the coasts of this country , carrying on a desperate struggle for existence by means of seal- and whale - hunting and fishing . They are kindly , amiable , children of nature , who , like all such races ...
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... Eskimos . They suffered horribly from the cold the last night , and were obliged to turn back for lack of provisions , and because their shoes had utterly gone to pieces on the way . Looking from a lofty pinnacle ( called by the natives ...
... Eskimos . They suffered horribly from the cold the last night , and were obliged to turn back for lack of provisions , and because their shoes had utterly gone to pieces on the way . Looking from a lofty pinnacle ( called by the natives ...
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... Eskimo ghosts . We may conclude , then , that the natives were not particularly courageous or valuable members of such an expedition . The first at all successful attempt to penetrate the inland ice - successful in so far that a ...
... Eskimo ghosts . We may conclude , then , that the natives were not particularly courageous or valuable members of such an expedition . The first at all successful attempt to penetrate the inland ice - successful in so far that a ...
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