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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... mountains of gingerbread , they passed by with ascetic resolution . On their return home it was found that they had laid out all their money in tools . This made such an impression that each of the home authorities came down with a ...
... mountains of gingerbread , they passed by with ascetic resolution . On their return home it was found that they had laid out all their money in tools . This made such an impression that each of the home authorities came down with a ...
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... mountain which was more or less prac- ticable , but Fridtiof would have none of that ; he must of course go straight up the precipitous black face of the hill . ' As we got up towards the peak , ' his brother relates , there was a snow ...
... mountain which was more or less prac- ticable , but Fridtiof would have none of that ; he must of course go straight up the precipitous black face of the hill . ' As we got up towards the peak , ' his brother relates , there was a snow ...
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... mountains - Norefjeld and thereabouts — and it was then they went on a tramp so exhausting that one of his brothers fell ... mountain plateaux that gave him his taste for the accu- rate observation of animal life , and thus supplied the ...
... mountains - Norefjeld and thereabouts — and it was then they went on a tramp so exhausting that one of his brothers fell ... mountain plateaux that gave him his taste for the accu- rate observation of animal life , and thus supplied the ...
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... mountains , where splendid towers and shimmering pinnacles soared heavenwards on every side , in every possible shape and hue , varied by vast unbroken fields of ice . But I found nothing of all this . What I did find was flat white ...
... mountains , where splendid towers and shimmering pinnacles soared heavenwards on every side , in every possible shape and hue , varied by vast unbroken fields of ice . But I found nothing of all this . What I did find was flat white ...
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... mountain fox carries off the sheep , and the raven carries off the lambs , and the half - starved golden plover freezes to death in the cold . Off they set to sea again , and the diary. IN THE POLAR SEA . II IN THE POLAR SEA . III. IN THE ...
... mountain fox carries off the sheep , and the raven carries off the lambs , and the half - starved golden plover freezes to death in the cold . Off they set to sea again , and the diary. IN THE POLAR SEA . II IN THE POLAR SEA . III. IN THE ...
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