1897 Farthest North: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1893-96 and of a Fifteen Months' Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen with an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup Captain of the Fram

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

The first English edition. Complete in two volumes. 

In the publisher's original cloth binding. 

Illustrated with sixteen colour plates from Nansen's own sketches, as well as an etched portrait frontispiece to Vol I and numerous full-page and in-text illustrations. Volume I illustrated with forty-seven monochrome plates and two folding maps to the rear. Volume II illustrated with sixty-five monochrome plates and two folding maps to the rear. 

Collated, complete. 

The official account of the first Fram expedition, which was an attempt by the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen to reach the North Pole by way of the natural east-west current of the Arctic Ocean. After eighteen months of erratic drift and slow speed, Nansen left the ship with a team of Samoyed dogs and sledges and made for the pole. They did not reach it, but they achieved a record Farthest North latitude of 86°13.6′N.

Nansen was a Norwegian polymath and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He gained prominence at various points in his life as an explorer, a scientist, a diplomat, a humanitarian, and the co-founder of the Fatherland League.