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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... proved himself in word and deed faithful to king and country , and an upright , just , impartial friend to truth and righteousness . ' 6 Those who accompanied him to his last resting - place sang at parting : · Hjertets Adel , Venskabs ...
... proved himself in word and deed faithful to king and country , and an upright , just , impartial friend to truth and righteousness . ' 6 Those who accompanied him to his last resting - place sang at parting : · Hjertets Adel , Venskabs ...
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... prove fatal . He anointed the arrow - head with mushroom , so that a wound from the juice of a poisonous it meant certain death . But the arrows somehow did no more execution , although he also tipped them with melted lead to make them ...
... prove fatal . He anointed the arrow - head with mushroom , so that a wound from the juice of a poisonous it meant certain death . But the arrows somehow did no more execution , although he also tipped them with melted lead to make them ...
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... prove that his distractions during schooltime had not been so absorbing as to prevent him from settling down to work when the moment arrived . He got a first class in all natural science subjects , mathematics and history ; and when ...
... prove that his distractions during schooltime had not been so absorbing as to prevent him from settling down to work when the moment arrived . He got a first class in all natural science subjects , mathematics and history ; and when ...
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... prove a useful and desirable member of the expedition . Permission was instantly wired back , and Nansen , having employed the brief interval at the University in studying the anatomy of the seal , sailed from the port of Arendal on ...
... prove a useful and desirable member of the expedition . Permission was instantly wired back , and Nansen , having employed the brief interval at the University in studying the anatomy of the seal , sailed from the port of Arendal on ...
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... proved insuperable , or that the scheme of the Greenland expedition had in the meantime thrust itself into the foreground and blocked the way . Nansen's scientific work at the Bergen Museum will be dealt with later on by a writer who ...
... proved insuperable , or that the scheme of the Greenland expedition had in the meantime thrust itself into the foreground and blocked the way . Nansen's scientific work at the Bergen Museum will be dealt with later on by a writer who ...
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