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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
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To quote the lengthy title page when this book was originally
published in 1897: "The 'Fram' Expedition, Nansen in the Frozen
World, preceded by a biography of the great explorer and copious
extracts from Nansen's First Crossing of Greenland; also an account
by Elvind Astrup of life among people near the pole, and his
journey across northern Greenland with Lieutenant Robert E. Peary,
United States Navy, arranged and edited by S. L. Berens, Cand.
Ph.D. Followed by a brief history of the principal earlier arctic
explorations from the Ninth Century to the Peary Expedition,
including those of Cabot, Frobisher, Bering, Sir John Franklin,
Kane, Hayes, Hall, Nordenskjold, Nareds, Schwatka, DeLong, Greely,
and others; by John E. Read, Assistant Editor of the Columbian
Cyclopedia.
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