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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... animal this was . So he took it all to pieces , and when his mother came back from town , the machine was the most disjointed puzzle NANSEN AS A YOUTH imaginable . If tradition is to be trusted , however , he did not give in until he ...
... animal this was . So he took it all to pieces , and when his mother came back from town , the machine was the most disjointed puzzle NANSEN AS A YOUTH imaginable . If tradition is to be trusted , however , he did not give in until he ...
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... animal life , and thus supplied the initial impulse towards the line of study which he finally chose . In the year 1880 he matriculated with sufficient credit to prove that his distractions during schooltime had not been so absorbing as ...
... animal life , and thus supplied the initial impulse towards the line of study which he finally chose . In the year 1880 he matriculated with sufficient credit to prove that his distractions during schooltime had not been so absorbing as ...
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... animal or insect , he insists on getting hold of . In the sea , alongside the ship , hang his nets , in which he catches his smaller specimens of marine life . Did he not catch a young seal and feed it and tend it for eight whole days ...
... animal or insect , he insists on getting hold of . In the sea , alongside the ship , hang his nets , in which he catches his smaller specimens of marine life . Did he not catch a young seal and feed it and tend it for eight whole days ...
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... animal life surpasses that of all other known seas in wealth and variety . Every educated man now knows , in a general way at all events , what a Zoological Station is . At that time no one had heard of such a thing ; for the idea was ...
... animal life surpasses that of all other known seas in wealth and variety . Every educated man now knows , in a general way at all events , what a Zoological Station is . At that time no one had heard of such a thing ; for the idea was ...
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... animals around him - cuttlefish , starfish , snails , and radiata of all kinds , making one feel just as though one ... animals they want , and presently the animals are brought alive to 1 Nansen's own word . · their very tables , where ...
... animals around him - cuttlefish , starfish , snails , and radiata of all kinds , making one feel just as though one ... animals they want , and presently the animals are brought alive to 1 Nansen's own word . · their very tables , where ...
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