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1897. NANSEN'S FARTHEST NORTH, 2 VOLS. RARE 1st EDITION
1897, Farthest North. NANSEN, Fridtjof.
The first folding map is missing from volume one, both maps intact in volume two.
Spine bumps and small tear, with general binder age.
Volume one has slight back board separation, but otherwise internally fine and clean examples of this very rare set of two 1st edition volumes.
The dark blue horizontal lines on the scan are from the scan only, not actually on the books.
Farthest North, Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1893-96.
Publishers, Westminster: Archibald Constable, 1897. Two volumes.
Octavo, original blue-green ribbed cloth gilt, uncut.
The very rare First edition in English of Nansen's account of his own polar expedition, with frontispiece portrait, four folding maps printed in color, and more than 112 illustrations from sketches and photographs, 16 printed in color.
In 1890, Norwegian scientist and explorer Fridtjof Nansen announced an innovative plan for Northern polar expeditions.
"His theory, that a drift-current sets across the polar regions from Bering Strait... towards the east coast of Greenland was based on a number of indications... His intention was to get his vessel fixed in the ice to the north of Eastern Siberia and let her drift with it."
Although criticized, his plan succeeded. "His ship, the 'Fram' ('Forward'), was specially built of immense strength and peculiar form" in order to endure the ice-floes."
During the winter of 1894-95 it was decided that an expedition should be made northward over the ice on foot in the spring... Being satisfied that the 'Fram' would continue to drift safely," Nansen led the expedition to 86 degrees North, "the highest latitude then reached by man"
(Britannica). Originally published in Norwegian in 1897.
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