Fridtjof Nansen; His Life and Explorations. Third Edition

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London. S.W Partridge and Co. 1898. Third Edition. Fifteenth Thousand. Abridged from the Larger Work. Hard Cover. Decorative red boards with bordered vignette of ship at sea to the upper board and circular bordered vignette of Nansen to the spine. Gilt titles. Blind stamped design under vignette. Black publishers device to the rear board. Boards have some wear at the spine ends and corners. Covers are a little marked. In about very good condition. Monochrome photographic frontispiece of Nansen and many more in the text as chapter head and tail pieces as well as full page reproductions. Sunday school prize paste down to the front endpaper dated 1899. Attractive pale green floral endpapers. Scanty darkening and spotting; minor. Publisher's ads to the rear. Tiny blind stamped Joyful News, Book Depot, Rochdale with 1/6 in pencil adjacent. Nansen was a Norwegian polymath and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He gained prominence at various points in his life as an explorer, scientist, diplomat and humanitarian. He led the team that made the first crossing of the Greenland interior in 1888, traversing the island on cross-country skis. His techniques of polar travel and his innovations in equipment and clothing influenced a generation of subsequent Arctic and Antarctic expeditions. N° de ref. del artículo MAR26.22009

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