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 67
... covered by the hum- mock , go gaily on his way . There I stood with a very long face , and could only send an ineffectual bullet in his wake . But then began a race which turned out an ample compen- sation for the disappointment . Oluf ...
... covered by the hum- mock , go gaily on his way . There I stood with a very long face , and could only send an ineffectual bullet in his wake . But then began a race which turned out an ample compen- sation for the disappointment . Oluf ...
Page 82
... covered , on their snow - shoes , an extraordinary distance in an astonishingly short time . The idea instantly flashed upon me of an expedition crossing Greenland on snow - shoes from coast to coast . Here was the plan in the same form ...
... covered , on their snow - shoes , an extraordinary distance in an astonishingly short time . The idea instantly flashed upon me of an expedition crossing Greenland on snow - shoes from coast to coast . Here was the plan in the same form ...
Page 118
... covered that the nerve fibres which compose the sensitive nerve roots of the spinal cord , after their entrance into the spinal cord , divide into two branches , of which the one runs at right angles and backwards ( down ) , and the ...
... covered that the nerve fibres which compose the sensitive nerve roots of the spinal cord , after their entrance into the spinal cord , divide into two branches , of which the one runs at right angles and backwards ( down ) , and the ...
Page 124
... covering about 23 degrees of latitude ( roughly speaking , 1,700 miles ) from the southern point , Cape Farewell , which lies almost exactly in the latitude of Christiania , to the north- ern point which was reached by Lockwood in 1882 ...
... covering about 23 degrees of latitude ( roughly speaking , 1,700 miles ) from the southern point , Cape Farewell , which lies almost exactly in the latitude of Christiania , to the north- ern point which was reached by Lockwood in 1882 ...
Page 125
... covered by a vast ice - crust , to which he gave the name of the Inland Ice . This information came just at an opportune moment for science . At that very time - about the middle of the present century - people were beginning to grasp ...
... covered by a vast ice - crust , to which he gave the name of the Inland Ice . This information came just at an opportune moment for science . At that very time - about the middle of the present century - people were beginning to grasp ...
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