Search results for ""Author Fridtjof Nansen""
Interfolio SL La travesía de Groenlandia
La muerte, o la costa oesteEl sentido común no entraba en los planes de Nansen para atravesar Groenlandia. Tras ocho intentos fallidos de otros exploradores demasiado prudentes, Nansen organizó su reducido equipo humano y técnico en menos de seis meses, lanzando la exploración polar a la era moderna.Su estrategia: impedir la vuelta atrás, quemar las naves. Al partir desde la deshabitada costa este hacía la habitada costa oeste, eliminaba la posibilidad de retroceder ante un hipotético fracaso, pues, qué haría el equipo volviendo al punto de partida en mitad de la nada? Esperar hasta morir?Así pues, la única salvación posible era avanzar hacia el éxito.La exploración es como la guerra, hay que prever una retirada, y usted, Nansen, no la tieneAdolf Erik NordenskiöldLa idea es temeraria y en total oposición al sentido comúnMikkel Hemmerstveit
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Gibson Square Books Ltd The First Crossing Of Greenland: The Daring Expedition that Launched Arctic Exploration
Before Fridtjof Nansen's Greenland expedition of 1888, the vast impenetrable arctic regions exasperated nineteenth-century scientists. The twenty-six-year-old thought he knew better. Convinced that he would succeed by skiing, a sport practically unknown at the time, he put together a group of only six members to cross the arctic interior of Greenland for the first time. They would pull their own sledges and, on a shoe-string, arrange transport to Greenland on two steam liners to drop them off in the icy Arctic sea. They could only afford a basic camera to document their trip. Astonishingly, this audacious but much criticised plan succeeded! Nansen's riveting expedition classic including his diary entries are here republished for the first time in full. His words and captivating expedition photographs caught with a student camera set in motion a golden age of exploration.
£15.17
Gibson Square Books Ltd Farthest North: The Greatest Arctic Adventure Story
Like a modern Viking 32-year-old Nansen set sail from Norway in 1893 to reach the North Pole. Experts warned him that his voyage was tantamount to suicide. Compact and nimble, his ship the Fram had been specially built to withstand the relentless, devastating pressure of the polar ice cap. At the right moment, he intended to strike out into the polar desert and finish the final leg by sledge.Nansen's vivid memoir became an international phenomenon when, having been given up for dead, he emerged three years later. His epic struggle against snowdrifts, ice floes, polar bears, scurvy, gnawing hunger and the loneliness of the polar night would inspire young explorers such as Scott and Amundsen a generation later to make new conquests. This first unabridged edition since 1897 includes photographs not previously published.
£16.99
