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Nansen's Farthest North, Voyage of Exploration of Ship Fram, 1893-96

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Nansen's Farthest North, Voyage of Exploration of Ship Fram, 1893-96

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Historic Polar Exploration.
Explorer Fridtjof Nansen (Oslo, Norway, 1861-1930).
Farthest North: the Record of the Exploration Voyage of the Ship Fram from 1893-1896 and of a Fifteen months Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen with an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup Captain of the Fram.
Two volumes 2nd English Edition,Hardcover.
Illustrated with colored plate, 111 plates in monochrome, portraits, text illustrations and a fold-out color chart of the North Polar Regions.
Publisher: George Newnes, Ltd., London.
Publication Date: 1898.
Original publisher's pictorial blue cloth stamped in gilt, red, and silver foil over beveled boards.
Condition: good original pre-owned estate condition.
Provenance: Boston, Massachusetts Estate.

Fridtjof Nansen set sale for the North Pole in the ship Fram, he traveled 146 miles farther North than anyone else in the past four hundred years.

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Good original estate condition, well preserved.
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Nansen's Farthest North, Voyage of Exploration of Ship Fram, 1893-96

Name: Nansen's Farthest North, Voyage of Exploration of Ship Fram, 1893-96
SKU: 127679789
Price: 325 USD
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