Farthest North, Vol. Ii: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896
Farthest North, Vol. Ii: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896
In 1893, Fridtjof Nansen convinced the Norwegian government to fund the most audacious Arctic expedition in history: sail a specially designed ship into the polar ice, let it freeze, and drift toward the North Pole. When the Fram drifted too far south, Nansen made the agonizing decision to abandon the ship and attempt the remaining distance by sledge with only one companion, Hjalmar Johansen. What followed was a nightmare of calculation and survival: 1,400 miles of frozen wasteland, a winter spent in a primitive hut built from driftwood and moss, meals of walrus and polar bear, and the constant knowledge that the world believed them dead. Nansen reached 86°14′ North, within four degrees of the pole, farther than any human had ever traveled. His account, written with scientific precision and remarkable restraint, transcends adventure narrative. It is a meditation on what drives a man to risk everything for a point on a map, and what he discovers about himself when the margin between life and death narrows to the strength of his will.
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“Love is life's snow. It falls deepest and softest into the gashes left by the fight - whiter and purer than snow itself.””
— Fridtjof Nansen
“beneath this crust, hundreds of fathoms down, there teems a world of checkered life in all its changing forms, a world of the same composition as ours, with the same instincts, the same sorrows, and also, no doubt, the same joys; everywhere the same struggle for existence. So it ever is. If we penetrate within even the hardest shell we come upon the pulsations of life, however thick the crust may be.””
— Fridtjof Nansen
“Hope is a rickety craft to trust one’s self to. I””
— Fridtjof Nansen
“Nothing more wonderfully beautiful can exist than the Arctic night. It is dreamland. painted in the imagination's most delicate tints; it is color etherealized. One shade melts into the other, so that you cannot tell where one ends and the other begins, and yet they are all there. No forms - it is all faint, dreamy color music, a far-away, long-drawn-out melody on muted strings. Is not all life's beauty high, and delicate, and pure like this night? Give it brighter colors, and it is no longer so beautiful.””
— Fridtjof Nansen
“At 1 o’clock all were assembled for dinner, which generally consisted of three courses”
— Fridtjof Nansen
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