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Farthest North

The Epic Adventure of a Visionary Explorer

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Farthest North

Yazan: Fridtjof Nansen
Seslendiren: Ulf Bjorklund
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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.

©2018 Fridtjof Nansen (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc. 19th Century Arctic & Antarctica Expeditions & Discoveries Modern World Kutup Bölgesi
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A sturdy boat and a sturdier crew, you'll feel like u have travelled with them

An epic journey!

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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 !

enjoyable real life adventure

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

Wonderful

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A brilliant account of polar expedition that I was admittedly unaware of going into this. Truly fascinating.

Brilliant

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Phew - now that was a liiiisteeeen.
I found it overly long, with many, many redundant parts. I love stories about epic journeys, adventures and expeditions in all formats, but this is literally a captain's journal, almost day-by-day. It's like listening/reading for 28 hours about the daily food menus, polar bear and walrus hunts, northern lights, sea depth and temperature measurements and dogs. Not much else really. This book could be compressed to a third of it's length and it would have more dense and engaging story without all these unnecessary repetitions. It could probably attract more readers being more "accessible" in that way. But on the other hand - it is an account of events, so it is what it is...
On the plus side, it describes the expedition raw, without much sugar. For example the treatment of the dogs may be upsetting, but in those circumstances totally understandable.
Overall - it is a bible that not everyone may have strength to go through up until the end...

Way too long and repetitive

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