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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... down into the valley . I had already had several attacks of giddiness , so that Fridtiof had given me his alpenstock , and was without it when it 6 came to crossing the glacier . Instead of going carefully NORDMARKEN 47.
... down into the valley . I had already had several attacks of giddiness , so that Fridtiof had given me his alpenstock , and was without it when it 6 came to crossing the glacier . Instead of going carefully NORDMARKEN 47.
Page 48
... glacier . ' The same year in which Fridtiof Nansen was in the Jotunheim , he had his first experience of ptarmigan shoot- ing in the mountains - Norefjeld and thereabouts — and it was then they went on a tramp so exhausting that one of ...
... glacier . ' The same year in which Fridtiof Nansen was in the Jotunheim , he had his first experience of ptarmigan shoot- ing in the mountains - Norefjeld and thereabouts — and it was then they went on a tramp so exhausting that one of ...
Page 58
... are off the coast of Ice- land . The glaciers on the Eyafialla - jökel glow in the sunset , and the dark ragged lava peaks of the Vestmanna Islands stand out wild and threatening against the purple horizon . 58 LIFE OF FRIDTIOF NANSEN.
... are off the coast of Ice- land . The glaciers on the Eyafialla - jökel glow in the sunset , and the dark ragged lava peaks of the Vestmanna Islands stand out wild and threatening against the purple horizon . 58 LIFE OF FRIDTIOF NANSEN.
Page 72
... glaciers lay glittering beyond the drift ice ; in the evening and at night , when the sun tinged them with colour and set air and clouds on fire behind them , their wild beauty was thrown into even bolder relief . ' He brooded ...
... glaciers lay glittering beyond the drift ice ; in the evening and at night , when the sun tinged them with colour and set air and clouds on fire behind them , their wild beauty was thrown into even bolder relief . ' He brooded ...
Page 87
... glaciers on every hand . When this titanic Nature outlines her noble contours against the deep , 1 E. Tegnér , Fridtiofs Saga , translated by the Rev. W. L. Blackley . 2 Both plays by Biörnson . dark sky , it seems to him like a glimpse ...
... glaciers on every hand . When this titanic Nature outlines her noble contours against the deep , 1 E. Tegnér , Fridtiofs Saga , translated by the Rev. W. L. Blackley . 2 Both plays by Biörnson . dark sky , it seems to him like a glimpse ...
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