Nansen, Fridtjof

Farthest North. Fridtjof Nansen's "Farthest North", being the record of a voyage of the ship Fram, 1893-96. and of a fifteen months' sleigh journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen, with an appendix by Otto Sverdrup captain of the Fram. (2 volumes)

London: Macmillan, 1897. Colonial Ed., 2 volumes 8vo, original blue cloth boards with gilt, pp 351, 471, viii. Folding map in vol. II. The Macmillan Colonial Edition, "intended for circulation only in India and the British Colonies", published in the same year as the first edition. Previous owner's ink name stamp front endpapers both volumes, o/w very good condn.

Nansen reached a record northern latitude of 86°14′ during his North Pole expedition. Item #89572

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