Author

NANSEN, Fridtjof.

Title

The first crossing of Greenland.

Published, Date

Longmans, London1890

Description

First edition in English. 2 volumes, 8vo., xxii, 510; x, 509pp., numerous illustrations, 4 coloured folding maps, scattered light foxing, green half morocco gilt for Hatchards, top edges gilt, a handsome set. Provenance: Frances Evelyn, Countess of Warwick (armorial bookplate).

Note

"In 1888 Nansen tested the innovation of using skis to cross Greenland, a risk widely seen as madness; despite many difficulties and delays he and five others successfully reached the west coast in time to winter at Godthab. Among other things, he was able to demonstrate that the Greenland icecap extended far to the north" (Books on Ice).

References

Arctic Bibliography 11985; see Books on Ice page 66.

Stock Number

82475