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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... side . ' We find him now at home , opening his plate chest and his money - box , placing great sums at the king's disposal , lending him his carriage and horses , and all the time doing his best to keep up the spirits of his own family ...
... side . ' We find him now at home , opening his plate chest and his money - box , placing great sums at the king's disposal , lending him his carriage and horses , and all the time doing his best to keep up the spirits of his own family ...
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... side alone ; through his mother he inherits the blood of the Wedels . Gustav Wilhelm von Wedel , a scion of this originally German stock , came to Denmark during the Scanian war as commander of a strong auxiliary force , which the ...
... side alone ; through his mother he inherits the blood of the Wedels . Gustav Wilhelm von Wedel , a scion of this originally German stock , came to Denmark during the Scanian war as commander of a strong auxiliary force , which the ...
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... side , great forests close at hand , and , only some two miles and a half away , an excellent school , one of the best in Christiania . These two miles and a half were reckoned a mere nothing in the Nansen household . First to school in ...
... side , great forests close at hand , and , only some two miles and a half away , an excellent school , one of the best in Christiania . These two miles and a half were reckoned a mere nothing in the Nansen household . First to school in ...
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... side . Not so much as a sound . Here at Fröen he first ran his head against the ice -the rough ice in the yard . When the little five - year- old rushed into the kitchen , there was scarcely a white spot left on his face , for the blood ...
... side . Not so much as a sound . Here at Fröen he first ran his head against the ice -the rough ice in the yard . When the little five - year- old rushed into the kitchen , there was scarcely a white spot left on his face , for the blood ...
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... sides of his nature , the gentle , childlike disposition and the indomitable will , were allowed to grow freely from his earliest youth ; and as time went on , they developed side by side into a personality curiously unlike that of so ...
... sides of his nature , the gentle , childlike disposition and the indomitable will , were allowed to grow freely from his earliest youth ; and as time went on , they developed side by side into a personality curiously unlike that of so ...
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