Farthest North

The Epic Adventure of a Visionary Explorer

Fridtjof Nansen

• Publisher: Skyhorse
• Year: 2008
• Print ISBN: 9781602392373
• eBook ISBN: 9781626369610
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: 19th Century History
• Index: History

"If Outside magazine had been around during the first turn of the century, Fridtjof Nansen would have been its No. 1 cover boy."—The Chicago Sun-Times In September of 1893, Norwegian zoologist Fridtjof Nansen and crew manned the schooner Fram, intending to drift, frozen in the Arctic pack-ice, to the North Pole. When it became clear that they would miss the pole, Nansen and companion Hjalmar Johansen struck off by themselves. Racing the shrinking pack-ice, they attempted, by dog-sled, to go "farthest north." They survived a winter in a moss hut eating walruses and polar bears, and the public assumed they were dead. In the spring of 1896, after three years of trekking, and having made it to within four degrees of the pole, they returned to safety. Nansen's narrative stands with the best writing on polar exploration. 20 b/w photographs.Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• FRIDTJOF NANSEN’S - “FARTHEST NORTH”
• Table of Contents
• CHAPTER I. - INTRODUCTION.
• CHAPTER II. - PREPARATIONS AND EQUIPMENT.
• CHAPTER III. - THE START.
• CHAPTER IV. - FAREWELL TO NORWAY.
• CHAPTER V. - VOYAGE THROUGH THE KARA SEA.
• CHAPTER VI. - THE WINTER NIGHT.
• CHAPTER VII. - THE SPRING AND SUMMER OF 1894.
• CHAPTER VIII. - SECOND AUTUMN IN THE ICE.
• CHAPTER IX. - WE PREPARE FOR THE SLEDGE EXPEDITION.
• CHAPTER X. - THE NEW YEAR, 1895.
• CHAPTER XI. - WE MAKE A START.
• CHAPTER XII. - WE SAY GOOD-BYE TO THE FRAM.—OUR SLEDGE JOURNEY.
• CHAPTER XIII. - A HARD STRUGGLE.
• CHAPTER XIV. - By SLEDGE AND KAYAK.
• CHAPTER XV. - LAND AT LAST.
• CHAPTER XVI. - THE NEW YEAR, 1896.
• CHAPTER XVII. - THE JOURNEY SOUTHWARDS.
• CHAPTER XVIII. - MARCH 15TH TO JUNE 22ND, 1895.
• CHAPTER XIX. - JUNE 22ND To AUGUST 15TH, 1895.
• CHAPTER XX. - AUGUST 15TH, 1895, TO JANUARY 1ST, 1896.
• CHAPTER XXI. - JANUARY IST TO MAY 17TH, 1896.
• CHAPTER XXII. - THE THIRD SUMMER
• CONCLUSION. - BY FRIDTJOF NANSEN.