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Title: Farthest North
Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896

Author: Fridtjof Nansen

Contributor: Otto Sverdrup

Release Date: October 7, 2009 [EBook #30197]

Language: English

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Farthest North

Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship "Fram"
1893-96 and of a Fifteen Months' Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and
Lieut. Johansen

By

Dr. Fridtjof Nansen

With an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup Captain of the Fram

About 120 Full-page and Numerous Text Illustrations 16 Colored
Plates in Facsimile from Dr. Nansen's Own Sketches, Etched Portrait,
and Photogravures

In two volumes

Vol. I.

New York and London
Harper & Brothers Publishers

Copyright, 1897, by Harper & Brothers.

All rights reserved.

TO
HER
WHO CHRISTENED THE SHIP
AND
HAD THE COURAGE TO REMAIN BEHIND

CONTENTS OF VOL. I.

CHAP. PAGE

I. Introduction 1
II. Preparations and Equipment 54
III. The Start 81
IV. Farewell To Norway 104
V. Voyage Through the Kara Sea 146
VI. The Winter Night 237
VII. The Spring and Summer of 1894 442
VIII. Second Autumn in the Ice 525

ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOL. I.