Farthest North (Summarized Edition)

Farthest North (The Complete Two-Volume Edition) chronicles Nansen's 1893–1896 Fram expedition, designed to ride the transpolar drift toward the Pole. From deliberate besetment to the sledge bid with Hjalmar Johansen—reaching 86°13′ N—and a winter on Franz Josef Land, the book fuses logbook precision with luminous, stoic prose. Embedded are rigorous observations in oceanography, meteorology, and n...