Hello P´Wisenheimers! I found a book about the first crossing of the Greenland Inland Ice (by skis, it was 1888 or something) by F. Nansen (Norwegian, a group of 4 Norwegians & 2 Lapps), which is illustrated. It was translated into English first during the1890´s, this is a 1906 edition. Price was something around USD 50! Nice reading, really, though Mr. Nansen is not really politically correct towards the Lapps & the Aboriginals. After the crossing they stayed through the winter months at the western coast, and, among other things, learned kayaking. Drawn and engraved illustrations after the photographs are quite nice :-) Anyone else familiar with the book? I wonder if there are present, new editions... Ari ari0236_at_saunalahti.fi *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Aug 23 2000 - 04:09:00 PDT
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