Fridtjof Nansen

I denne boken skildrer Fridtjof Nansen en lengre reise som han gjorde i Sibir i 1913 etter invitasjon fra russiske myndigheter. I kj lvannet av f rste verdenskrig kom han til engasjere seg sterkt for forholdene i Russland. Jonas Lied, som organiserte reisen fra Norge til Sibir, hadde stiftet Det sibirske kompani for drive handel og industri i Sibir og grunnla blant annet et sagbruk i Lesosibirsk ved Jenisej som sies v re verdens st rste. Nansen reiste gjennom Ishavet til munningen av Jenisej, opp denne elven til Krasnojarsk og med jernbanen frem og tilbake til Vladivostok. I dag er Fridtjof Nansen en av Krasnojarsk st rste helter og fortsatt h yst levende i folks minne. Boken er en del av Nansen-serien Fra Svalbard til Kaukasus, tredje bind.

Fridtjof Nansen (1861 - 1930) var en norsk polfarer, oppdager, diplomat og vitenskapsmann. I 1888 nsket Nansen utforske det indre av Gr nland. Tidligere ekspedisjoner, blant andre Adolf Erik Nordenski ld hadde fors kt g fra den bebodde vestkysten til den ubebodde stkysten. Nansen bestemte seg i stedet for g fra st mot vest. Forskjellige autoriteter angrep ham for dette, men han trosset advarslene. Etter turen skrev Nansen to b ker; "P ski over Gr nland" (1890) og "Eskimoliv" (1891). I "P ski over Gr nland" forteller Nansen om turen over Gr nland, om forberedelser, utrustning, skil pingens og skienes historie, eskimoenes levevis, ekspedisjonens vitenskapelige utbytte og Gr nlands geologi, topografi og meteorologi. "P ski over Gr nland" ble ogs oversatt til engelsk og tysk og p virket skiidrettens utbredelse internasjonalt. Boka innkluderer bilder og tegninger.

Title: Across the Polar Region. A lecture by Dr. F. Nansen ... describing his voyage ... in the Fram during the years 1893-96. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The HISTORY OF TRAVEL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection contains personal narratives, travel guides and documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and female. Also included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal narratives of trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Nansen, Fridtjof; 1897. 28 p.; 4 . 10460.ff.24. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Like a modern Viking 32-year-old Nansen set sail from Norway in 1893 to reach the North Pole. Experts warned him that his voyage was tantamount to suicide. Compact and nimble, his ship the Fram had been specially built to withstand the relentless, devastating pressure of the polar ice cap. At the right moment, he intended to strike out into the polar desert and finish the final leg by sledge. Nansen's vivid memoir became an international phenomenon when, having been given up for dead, he emerged three years later. His epic struggle against snowdrifts, ice floes, polar bears, scurvy, gnawing hunger and the loneliness of the polar night would inspire young explorers such as Scott and Amundsen a generation later to make new conquests. This first unabridged edition since 1897 includes photographs not previously published.