Farthest North
by Fridtjof Nansen · first published 1999
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For a similar approach during the 'golden age' of polar exploration, read the fascinating "Farthest North" by Fritjof Nansen. My review of it including Gutenberg links for their free edition: http://paperstack.com/post/2018/10/24/a-review-of-farthest-n...
on “Scientists on Arctic Expedition Choose Ice Floe That’ll Be Home for a Year” ↗"Farthest North" In 1893, Fridjtof Nansen set sail in the Fram, a ship specially designed and built to be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures, and travel with the sea’s drift closer to the…
on “Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things” ↗Similar in nature is Farthest North: The Incredible Three-Year Voyage to the Frozen Latitudes of the North. Fridjtof Nansen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fridtjof_Nansen) led the expedition.
on “Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things” ↗Ooh, do try "Farthest North" too, about Nansen's North Polar expedition. Quite fascinating and (I found) quite amusing to a modern reader for various reasons.
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