NANSEN, Fridtjof. - In Nacht und Eis. Die Norwegische Polarexpedition 1893-1896. Mit einem Beitrag von Kapitän Sverdrup. Neue revidirte Ausgabe.

Leipzig, F.A. Brockhaus, 1898. 3 volumes. Original pictorial cloth. With 4 folding maps, 12 coloured plates and 297 illustrations after sketches and photographs. X,527; VIII,539; VIII,519 pp. First German edition issued in 1897-98; first published in Oslo 1897-1898: Fram over Polhavet. - Nansen's own account of the first Fram expedition (June 1893 - August 1896) of a remarkable achievement in polar exploration. Including i.a. an account of Nansen's and Johansen's sledge journey, reaching the farthest north latitude yet attained by man, and their wintering on Franz Josef's Land. With the ship Fram, the first ship built to withstand the pressure of pack ice, from Vardö, 1893, through the Barents, Kara, and Laptev Seas to a point just west of the New Siberian Islands, thence drifting ice-bound, westward across the north polar sea to north of Spitsbergen, 1896. With the often missing third volume: B. Nordahl. Wir Framleute; H. Johanssen. Nansen und ich auf 86'14'. - A fine set. Arctic Bibl. 11983; Howgego IV, N3; Stam, Books on ice, p.66; PMN 384.

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