Locked in Ice
Nansen's Daring Quest for the North Pole
A spellbinding biography of Fridtjof Nansen, the pioneer of polar exploration, with a spotlight on his harrowing three-year journey to the top of the world.An explorer who many adventurers argue ranks alongside polar celebrity Ernest Shackleton, Fridtjof Nansen contributed tremendous amounts of new information to our knowledge about the Polar Arctic. At a time when the North Pole was still undiscovered territory, he attempted the journey in a way that most experts thought was mad: Nansen purposefully locked his ship in ice for two years in order to float northward along the currents. Richly illustrated with historic photographs, this riveting…
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- ISBN: 978-1-250-13765-4
- EAN: 9781250137654
- Produktnummer: 26427935
- Verlag: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 439'932 KB
- Abbildungen: Black-and-white photographs throughout
- Sonstiges: Ab 8 - 11 J.
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Peter Lourie
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