This well-illustrated account of polar exploration was originally
published in Norway in 1903, and in this two-volume English
translation in 1904. It tells the story of the four years spent by
Otto Sverdrup (1854 1930) and his crew in surveying and charting
the seas and coastlines of the Arctic. Sverdrup had qualified as a
ship's master when he first met Fridtjof Nansen, whose Greenland
expedition of 1888 he accompanied. He advised on the construction
of Nansen's wooden ship, the Fram, and became its master in 1895.
Both with Nansen and under his own leadership, he undertook many
expeditions. In June 1898, he took the Fram and a crew including
several scientists to Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic,
where they overwintered for four years. Volume 2 describes the
remainder of the expedition's time on the ice, and also the results
of the various scientific surveys made by the crew."
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