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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Nowhere else did we advance at a slower pace nor toil so hard each step of the way nor endure so much deprivation and suffering and nowhere else did the discoveries made promise less material gain. This is how Fridtjof Nansen begins Northern Mists his great opus about carly Arctic exploration. He himself had paid the price for getting further north than any other human being. We may have struggled but we also experienced great satisfaction. What words can describe the exhilaration we felt when we cleared the last ice floe and ahead of us lay the high seas leading to new kingdoms? The polar heroes’ tales of perilous explorations held the world spellbound at the end of the 19 and the beginning of the 20 centuries. Traversing each new latitude was celebrated as a milestone in the struggle toward higher goals: the public waited in anxious expectation to see which nation would have the honont of planting its flag at the poles or sailing the northern passages. Who would add new territory to his nation? As it happened many returned empty-handed while others did nor come home at all like John Franklin’s nien in the mid-19 century. Considering Norway’s geographical location it is natural to assume that the country always played a part in the exploration of polar regions Both geographically and climatically Norway’s northern coasts border on northern ‘polar regions’. The dynamic conditions in the atmosphere and oceans and the Gulf Stream-whose mild Atlantic air masses collide with Arctic currents and polar air fronts have gready influenced people’s ability to survive on land and at sca. The warm ocean current caresses the Norwegian coast and provides the casiest route to the Arctic. In fact the name Norway means the road to the north. (MP)