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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Page 38
... side from such a homestead , and wish to escape the tramp round to it , your plan is to light a fire by way of signal for a boat . Tramping and rowing are practically the only means of locomotion in this district ; riding , indeed , is ...
... side from such a homestead , and wish to escape the tramp round to it , your plan is to light a fire by way of signal for a boat . Tramping and rowing are practically the only means of locomotion in this district ; riding , indeed , is ...
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... side . Here close to a town of 180,000 inhabitants - one comes without warning upon Tarns and hidden fountains Where the great elk comes to drink , while the music of the .song - birds lures one further and further into the woods . Here ...
... side . Here close to a town of 180,000 inhabitants - one comes without warning upon Tarns and hidden fountains Where the great elk comes to drink , while the music of the .song - birds lures one further and further into the woods . Here ...
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... 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 floes of drift - ice rocking on the greenish - blue waves - alternate fog and sunshine ...
... 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 floes of drift - ice rocking on the greenish - blue waves - alternate fog and sunshine ...
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... sides ; the floes drifted past us more frequently . From time to time the ship struck upon a floe , lifting it up on end with a mighty crash , and hurling it aside . from the sturdy bow . ' The next morning finds him in the thick of the ...
... sides ; the floes drifted past us more frequently . From time to time the ship struck upon a floe , lifting it up on end with a mighty crash , and hurling it aside . from the sturdy bow . ' The next morning finds him in the thick of the ...
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... side . Now he has to jump up from the dinner - table ( that is to say , at ten o'clock at night ) , and again he must stop in the midst of his deep - sea dredging , at a shout from the crow's - nest- A bear on the lee quarter ! ' Away ...
... side . Now he has to jump up from the dinner - table ( that is to say , at ten o'clock at night ) , and again he must stop in the midst of his deep - sea dredging , at a shout from the crow's - nest- A bear on the lee quarter ! ' Away ...
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