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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Page 55
... Nordenskiöld through the North - East Passage , and is now seal - hunting . It lies there proudly in the moonlight with its airy rigging . Fridtiof Nansen looks with reverence at the famous ship , while the crew about him put in their ...
... Nordenskiöld through the North - East Passage , and is now seal - hunting . It lies there proudly in the moonlight with its airy rigging . Fridtiof Nansen looks with reverence at the famous ship , while the crew about him put in their ...
Page 82
... Nordenskiöld had come back safe from his expedition to the interior of Greenland , and that he had found no oasis but only endless snowfields , on which his Lapps were said to have covered , on their snow - shoes , an extraordinary ...
... Nordenskiöld had come back safe from his expedition to the interior of Greenland , and that he had found no oasis but only endless snowfields , on which his Lapps were said to have covered , on their snow - shoes , an extraordinary ...
Page 132
... important scientific results obtained - was that undertaken by Professor Nordenskiöld and Dr. Berggren in 1870. Their point of departure was the southern arm of the Aulaitsivik Fiord ( 681 N. lat . ) , 132 LIFE OF FRIDTIOF NANSEN.
... important scientific results obtained - was that undertaken by Professor Nordenskiöld and Dr. Berggren in 1870. Their point of departure was the southern arm of the Aulaitsivik Fiord ( 681 N. lat . ) , 132 LIFE OF FRIDTIOF NANSEN.
Page 135
... Nordenskiöld , the great pioneer of systematic Polar investigation , so far as Scandi- navia is concerned , after his first journey on the inland ice in 1870 , had undertaken a whole series of Arctic expeditions- to Spitzbergen ...
... Nordenskiöld , the great pioneer of systematic Polar investigation , so far as Scandi- navia is concerned , after his first journey on the inland ice in 1870 , had undertaken a whole series of Arctic expeditions- to Spitzbergen ...
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... Nordenskiöld himself , among them two Lapps , named Lars Tuorda and Anders Rossa . The start was made on July 7 , again at the very mildest season of the year . They thus escaped the excessively low temperature which prevails at a later ...
... Nordenskiöld himself , among them two Lapps , named Lars Tuorda and Anders Rossa . The start was made on July 7 , again at the very mildest season of the year . They thus escaped the excessively low temperature which prevails at a later ...
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