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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... LATEST AUTHORITIES UTMOST LIMITS OF LAND - ICE IN EUROPE DURING GREAT ICE AGE . THE POLAR AREA . To face page 123 139 27 224 ་ ་ 39 LIFE OF FRIDTIOF NANSEN CHAPTER I ANCESTRY NEARLY three centuries X LIFE OF FRIDTIOF NANSEN.
... LATEST AUTHORITIES UTMOST LIMITS OF LAND - ICE IN EUROPE DURING GREAT ICE AGE . THE POLAR AREA . To face page 123 139 27 224 ་ ་ 39 LIFE OF FRIDTIOF NANSEN CHAPTER I ANCESTRY NEARLY three centuries X LIFE OF FRIDTIOF NANSEN.
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... land now known , viz .: over 80 ° north latitude , and is called by the Dutch Spitz Bergen . 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 ...
... land now known , viz .: over 80 ° north latitude , and is called by the Dutch Spitz Bergen . 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 ...
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... land at stake , but civic freedom and independence as well . On the following day , the 10th of August 1658 , the Privy Council was obliged to issue a proclamation which was as good as a patent of nobility to all the merchants and ...
... land at stake , but civic freedom and independence as well . On the following day , the 10th of August 1658 , the Privy Council was obliged to issue a proclamation which was as good as a patent of nobility to all the merchants and ...
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... land , and one of the greatest festivals in the year . Once , when a Christiania clergyman asked a candidate for con- firmation what were the feast days of the ecclesiastical year , the boy could think of none but Christmas and Fair ...
... land , and one of the greatest festivals in the year . Once , when a Christiania clergyman asked a candidate for con- firmation what were the feast days of the ecclesiastical year , the boy could think of none but Christmas and Fair ...
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... Land he has himself written as I showed no great intrepidity on my first voyage of discovery , although it went no farther than to Sörkedal . ' I was somewhere about ten or eleven at the time , and up in Sörkedal lived several boys who ...
... Land he has himself written as I showed no great intrepidity on my first voyage of discovery , although it went no farther than to Sörkedal . ' I was somewhere about ten or eleven at the time , and up in Sörkedal lived several boys who ...
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