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  • Farthest North

  • The Epic Adventure of a Visionary Explorer
  • By: Fridtjof Nansen
  • Narrated by: Ulf Bjorklund
  • Length: 28 hrs and 10 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (19 ratings)
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Farthest North

By: Fridtjof Nansen
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Summary

In 1893 Norwegian zoologist Fridtjof Nansen set sail for the North Pole in the Fram, a ship specially designed to be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures, and travel north with the sea's drift. Experts said that such a ship couldn't be built and that the mission was tantamount to suicide.

Farthest North, first published in 1897 to great popular appeal, is the stirring first-person account of the Fram and her historic voyage. Nansen tells of his expedition's struggle against snowdrifts, ice floes, polar bears, scurvy, gnawing hunger, and the seemingly endless polar night that transformed the Fram into a "cold prison of loneliness".

Once it became clear that the Fram could drift no farther, Nansen and crew member Hjalmar Johansen set out on a harrowing 15-month sledge journey to reach their destination by foot, which required them to share a sleeping bag of rotting reindeer fur and to feed the weaker sled dogs to the stronger ones.

In the end, they traveled 146 miles farther north than any westerner had gone before, representing the greatest single gain in polar exploration in four centuries. Farthest North is an unforgettable story that marks the beginning of the modern age of exploration and is a must-hear for the armchair adventurer.

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©2018 Fridtjof Nansen (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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An epic journey!

A sturdy boat and a sturdier crew, you'll feel like u have travelled with them

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Wonderful

Lovely reading of a fascinating account by a polar hero, scientist explorer and humanitarian. Excellent.

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enjoyable real life adventure

I really enjoyed this audiobook, I think for some it may be a bit monotonous but for those who feel their inner adventurer sometimes yearning to 'go explore' then this is a book for you. It is a book that transports you to those polar regions hitherto unexplored or explained ! A bit gory at times but non the less exciting. The Fram and it's crew were truly legends !

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