Life And Explorations Of Fridtjof Nansen - BY J. ARTHUR BAIN -
INTRODUCTION. - THE only cure for he Arctic fever is the discovery
of the North Pole. If any one imagines that man is going to abandon
this idea, should a few more lives be sacrificed in the pursuit of
it, he is greatly mistaken. A goal at once so definite and so
encompassed with mystery is sure to command human effort until it
shall be reached, and never was mankind nearer to this consummation
than at the present time. The operations of Arctic heroes,
beginning with Sebastian Cabot and ending with Pridtjof Nansen,
have gradually broken down the barriers that have stood for ages
between restless man and his ambition. For many years Great Britain
has stood foremost in the history of Arctic exploration, but Norwgy
has lately proved a formidable rival in the person of Fridtjof
Nansen, whose crossing of the great Greenland plateau in 1855 drew
attenation for the first time to the fertility of resource
possessed by this strong-nerved Scandinavian. There are many
thousands of people with whom it is an article of belief that if
the veil is to be lifted which hides that mysterious region known
as the North Pole, the withdrawing hand................
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