£ 100
Nansen, Fridtjof.
FARTHEST NORTH: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration 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.
George Newnes.
1898
Second edition.
A stirring account of the Fram and her historic voyage. Nansen tells of his expedition's struggle against snowdrifts, ice floes, polar bears, scurvy, gnawing hunger, and the seemingly endless polar night that transformed the Fram into a ‘cold prison of loneliness.’ Once it became clear that the Fram could drift no farther, Nansen and crew member Hjalmar Johansen set out on a harrowing fifteen-month sledge journey to reach the North Pole by foot. This required them to share a sleeping bag of rotting reindeer fur and to feed the weaker sled dogs to the stronger ones. They traveled 146 miles farther north than any Westerner before. This represented at the time the greatest single gain in polar exploration in four centuries.
Two volumes. Volumes 1, 480pp and volume 2, 456pp. Complete with 120 plates and general map of the Polar region at the end of volume 1. In maroon half calf leather binding with 5 raised bands, gilt dentelles and single spine gilt labels. Spotted endpapers. No inscriptions. Light wear to cloth and leather corners and extremities. Pages clean and bright. A very good+ set.
     
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