Fridtjof Nansen: A Book for the Young

Original Title Page.

Fridtjof Nansen

A Book for the Young

By
Jacob B. Bull
Translated
By the
Rev. Mordaunt R. Barnard
Vicar of Margaretting, Essex
One of the translators of Dr. Nansen’s “Farthest North”

Boston, U.S.A.
D. C. Heath & Co., Publishers
1903

The illustrations on pages 85, 95, 125, are from Dr. Nansen’s book entitled “Farthest North: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram, 1893–1896; etc.” Copyright, 1897, 1898, by Harper & Brothers.

Contents.

Chapter		Page
I.	Nansen’s Boyhood—Education and Character	1
II.	Youthful Adventures	14
III.	Mountain-climbing in Winter	29
IV.	Preparing for the Greenland Expedition	35
V.	Sledging across Greenland	51
VI.	Nansen’s Marriage—A Strange Wedding-trip	73
VII.	The Fram—Setting out for the Pole	82
VIII.	The Ice Pressure—Hunting the White Bear	94
IX.	Farthest North	109
X.	Nansen Meeting Dr. Jackson in Franz Joseph Land	123

Illustrations.

Page
Map of Nansen’s Polar Route Frontispiece
Store Fröen, Nansen’s Birthplace 3
Nansen at Nineteen 21
Otto Sverdrup 43
Camp on the Drift Ice 47
East Greenland Esquimaux 56
Sledging Across Greenland 64
On the Way To Godthaab 68
Crew of the Fram 85
The Fram in an Ice Pressure 95
Nansen and Johansen Leaving the Fram 110
Meeting of Nansen and Jackson 125

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