Farthest North (Vol. 1&2)

Farthest North (Vol. 1&2)
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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: The memoirs by Fridtjof Nansen tell about the epoch-making attempt to reach the North Pole, which ended in the farthest northern journey in the history of his time. Fridtjof Nansen had an extraordinary idea of how to get to the North Pole by ship. After discovering that the remains of the boat, wrecked near Russian Siberia, were found in the Northern Atlantic, he presumed that there should be some drift through the North Pole. So, he developed a specifically customized ship that was frozen into an ice cube and crossed the Polar waters in this shape. The vessel did freeze successfully. Yet, the journey was too long, and Nansen left the ship to reach the Pole on skis. He and his companion Hjalmar Johansen left for the pole but didn't manage to get it. However, they were the first people to achieve the farthest north latitude of 86°13.6′N. The story tells about this challenging journey through snow and waters makes a unique record of one of the most incredible northern expeditions.

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Fridtjof Nansen. Farthest North (Vol. 1&2)

Farthest North (Vol. 1&2)

Table of Contents

Volume 1

Chapter I. Introduction

Chapter II. Preparations and Equipment

Statement of Accounts of the Expedition on its Setting Out, 1893

Chapter III. The Start

Chapter IV. Farewell to Norway

Trontheim’s Narrative

Chapter V. Voyage through the Kara Sea

Chapter VI. The Winter Night

‘ “Winter in the Ice

“ ‘To the New Year

Chapter VII. The Spring and Summer of 1894

Table of Temperatures

Chapter VIII. Second Autumn in the Ice

Volume 2

Chapter I. We Prepare for the Sledge Expedition

Chapter II. The New Year, 1895

Chapter III. We Make a Start

Chapter IV. We Say Good-bye to the “Fram”

Chapter V. A Hard Struggle

Chapter VI. By Sledge and Kayak

Chapter VII. Land at Last

Chapter VIII. The New Year, 1896

Chapter IX. The Journey Southward

The Mean Temperature of Every Month during Nansen and Johansen’s Sledge Journey

Appendix. Report of Captain Otto Sverdrup on the Drifting of the “Fram” from March 14, 1895

Chapter I. March 15 to June 22, 1895

Chapter II. June 22 to August 15, 1895

Chapter III. August 15 to January 1, 1896

Chapter IV. January 1 to May 17, 1896

Chapter V. The Third Summer

Conclusion

Mean Temperatures (Fahr.) for every Month during the Drift of the “Fram”

Continuous Periods of Temperature under −40°

The Mean Temperature of the Twenty-four Hours for these Periods

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Fridtjof Nansen

Historical Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896

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“The main point in this vessel is that it be built on such principles as to enable it to withstand the pressure of the ice. The sides must slope sufficiently to prevent the ice, when it presses together, from getting firm hold of the hull, as was the case with the Jeannette and other vessels. Instead of nipping the ship, the ice must raise it up out of the water. No very new departure in construction is likely to be needed, for the Jeannette, notwithstanding her preposterous build, was able to hold out against the ice pressure for about two years. That a vessel can easily be built on such lines as to fulfil these requirements no one will question who has seen a ship nipped by the ice. For the same reason, too, the ship ought to be a small one; for, besides being thus easier to manœuvre in the ice, it will be more readily lifted by the pressure of the ice, not to mention that it will be easier to give it the requisite strength. It must, of course, be built of picked materials. A ship of the form and size here indicated will not be a good or comfortable sea-boat, but that is of minor importance in waters filled with ice such as we are here speaking of. It is true that it would have to travel a long distance over the open sea before it would get so far, but it would not be so bad a sea-boat as to be unable to get along, even though sea-sick passengers might have to offer sacrifices to the gods of the sea.

“With such a ship and a crew of ten, or at the most twelve, able-bodied and carefully picked men, with a full equipment for five years, in every respect as good as modern appliances permit of, I am of opinion that the undertaking would be well secured against risk. With this ship we should sail up through Bering Strait and westward along the north coast of Siberia towards the New Siberian Islands8 as early in the summer as the ice would permit.

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