Nansen
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Abacus
Published: August 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 800
ISBN-13: 9780349114927
Subjects: Biography: general; Geographical discovery & exploration; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Adventurers & Explorers; ARCTIC REGIONS_DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION; Biography & Autobiography / Adventurers & Explorers; EXPLORERS; NANSEN, FRIDTJOF, 1861-1930; NORWAY_BIOGRAPHY; Literary
First sentence: Fridtjof Nansen was born in Christiania, as Oslo, the capital of Norway was then called, on 10 October 1861.
Description: Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century?Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South, and Peary in the North?looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen, the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar exploration, the last act of territorial discovery before the leap into space began. A restless, unquiet Faustian spirit, Nansen was a Renaissance Man born out of his time in Norway. He was an adventurer, an artist and historian, and a diplomat who had dealings with Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin, and played a part in the Versailles Peace Conference.