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Originally published in 1897, this two-volume work chronicles the polar expedition of Norwegian scientist Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), who came closer than any previous explorer to the North Pole. Beginning on board his boat, the Fram, which was deliberately driven into pack-ice off Siberia in order to drift north, Nansen and his companions later resorted to sleds and kayaks. Running to over six hundred pages, Volume 1 includes descriptions of the expedition's preparation and equipment, the farewell to Norway and voyage through the Kara Sea, ending with the party's second autumn on the ice. The Fram served as an oceanographic-meteorological-biological laboratory during its time in the Arctic and Nansen eventually published six volumes of scientific observations. He later became Norwegian delegate to the League of Nations, directing humanitarian projects, and is famous for receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922 as well as for his polar achievements.… (más)
Esta es, probablemente, la más extraordinaria expedición polar en la historia de la Humanidad. Cada una de las pioneras observaciones científicas de Nansen son aceptadas y utilizadas hoy en día. El plan de Nansen consistía en meterse deliberadamente en la peor pesadilla de los exploradores polares, esto es: dejarse atrapar en el hielo e ivernar a la deriva. Con ello quería demostrar la existencia de las corrientes árticas e intentar llegar al polo Norte arrastrado por ellas durante tres años.
Éxito o fracaso no son términos que puedan aplicarse a esta colosal empresa, porque el viaje del Fram lanzaría definitivamente a la era moderna la exploración de las tierras polares.
La edición que se describe aquí no coincide con la mía, ¿no se si varía la imagen de portada?, la que yo tengo es de tapas blandas y no menciona el mes de edición, aunque coincide el año. ( )
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
A time will come in later years when the Ocean will unloose the bands of things, when the immeasurable earth will lie open, when seafarers will discover new countries, and Thule will no longer be the extreme point among the lands. --Seneca
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Unseen and untrodden under their spotless mantle of ice the rigid polar regions slept the profound sleep of death from the earliest dawn of time.
Introduction (by Jon Krakauer): Why should we be interested in the jottings of explorers and adventurers?
Introduction (by Roland Huntford): By the end of the nineteenth century, most of the world had been explored.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Even if explorers have to live in Eskimo fashion and content themselves with the barest necessaries, they may, provided they are suitably equipped, make good headway and cover considerable distances in regions which have hitherto been regarded as almost inaccessible.
Originally published in 1897, this two-volume work chronicles the polar expedition of Norwegian scientist Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), who came closer than any previous explorer to the North Pole. Beginning on board his boat, the Fram, which was deliberately driven into pack-ice off Siberia in order to drift north, Nansen and his companions later resorted to sleds and kayaks. Running to over six hundred pages, Volume 1 includes descriptions of the expedition's preparation and equipment, the farewell to Norway and voyage through the Kara Sea, ending with the party's second autumn on the ice. The Fram served as an oceanographic-meteorological-biological laboratory during its time in the Arctic and Nansen eventually published six volumes of scientific observations. He later became Norwegian delegate to the League of Nations, directing humanitarian projects, and is famous for receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922 as well as for his polar achievements.
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Éxito o fracaso no son términos que puedan aplicarse a esta colosal empresa, porque el viaje del Fram lanzaría definitivamente a la era moderna la exploración de las tierras polares.