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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... Bear Island , Jan Mayen Island , Nova Zembla and Friszland , all of which are cold and barren lands , whereof little need be said . ' Greenland is a country of very great extent , belonging to the Kingdom of Norway . Its coasts were ...
... Bear Island , Jan Mayen Island , Nova Zembla and Friszland , all of which are cold and barren lands , whereof little need be said . ' Greenland is a country of very great extent , belonging to the Kingdom of Norway . Its coasts were ...
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... Bear Island lies about midway between the North Cape and Grenland , and is only a small island , where the whale and the walrus are found . 6 6 Friszland lies a little south - west of Iceland , and is not now visited . 6 Nova Zembla ...
... Bear Island lies about midway between the North Cape and Grenland , and is only a small island , where the whale and the walrus are found . 6 6 Friszland lies a little south - west of Iceland , and is not now visited . 6 Nova Zembla ...
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... bears evidence of the same qualities . A few words more about the Nansen family . Hans Nansen , Municipal President , Privy Councillor , and Judge of the Supreme Court , died at Copenhagen , November 12 , 1667. A daughter of his eldest ...
... bears evidence of the same qualities . A few words more about the Nansen family . Hans Nansen , Municipal President , Privy Councillor , and Judge of the Supreme Court , died at Copenhagen , November 12 , 1667. A daughter of his eldest ...
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... let your war - cry pass from mouth to mouth . Then heaps of slain and rivers of blood shall bear witness that there the sons of Trondhiem stood victorious . ' In his new sphere of activity he found the popular 12 LIFE OF FRIDTIOF NANSEN.
... let your war - cry pass from mouth to mouth . Then heaps of slain and rivers of blood shall bear witness that there the sons of Trondhiem stood victorious . ' In his new sphere of activity he found the popular 12 LIFE OF FRIDTIOF NANSEN.
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... bear the stamp of a voluntary arrangement , and in every depart- ment in which amalgamation was not unavoidably necessary , the freedom and independence of Norway should be set forth in clear and unequivocal terms . No clause should be ...
... bear the stamp of a voluntary arrangement , and in every depart- ment in which amalgamation was not unavoidably necessary , the freedom and independence of Norway should be set forth in clear and unequivocal terms . No clause should be ...
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