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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... voyage , indeed , they had been twice overhauled and plundered by the English . Now they were fast in the ice at Kola . But the intel- ligent boy , eager for knowledge , did not permit himself to 1 See Dansk historisk Tidsskrift 3 R. I ...
... voyage , indeed , they had been twice overhauled and plundered by the English . Now they were fast in the ice at Kola . But the intel- ligent boy , eager for knowledge , did not permit himself to 1 See Dansk historisk Tidsskrift 3 R. I ...
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... voyage with the sealer Viking . ' Dear Fridtiof , I write these lines to let you know something that you certainly have no suspicion of . I am longing for you intensely , and I miss you more and more every day . When you were away for ...
... voyage with the sealer Viking . ' Dear Fridtiof , I write these lines to let you know something that you certainly have no suspicion of . I am longing for you intensely , and I miss you more and more every day . When you were away for ...
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... 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 were friends of mine , and who had asked my brothers and myself to come ...
... 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 were friends of mine , and who had asked my brothers and myself to come ...
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... voyage is the sighting of a derelict wreck . Then there comes a stiff gale ; the main- yard is carried away and the deck is swept by the seas . In the evenings the phosphorescence plays in the spray like flame . Day after day he notes ...
... voyage is the sighting of a derelict wreck . Then there comes a stiff gale ; the main- yard is carried away and the deck is swept by the seas . In the evenings the phosphorescence plays in the spray like flame . Day after day he notes ...
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... voyage I am entirely at ease . I have followed your exposition of the scheme with the liveliest interest , and I have sufficiently acquainted myself with the arguments which have on all sides been urged against you , to have arrived at ...
... voyage I am entirely at ease . I have followed your exposition of the scheme with the liveliest interest , and I have sufficiently acquainted myself with the arguments which have on all sides been urged against you , to have arrived at ...
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