Farthest North
2 authors - Paperback
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Fridtjof Nansen Author & Editor
Fridtjof Nansen brought arctic exploration within the realm of possibilities after his sensational expedition on a shoestring (1888) to the forbidding glaciers of Greenland. An adolescent at the time, it made him world-famous and the inspiration for those who came after him, Shackleton, Scott and Amundsen. A scientist, celebrity and unlikely nineteenth-century sex-symbol, he engineered the peaceful secession of Norway from Sweden and later received the Nobel Peace Prize for his refugee work.
