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/ ***************************************************************************
At 09:23 AM 8/23/00 +0200, Ari Saarto wrote: >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 I have a 1895 and a 1934 edition but don't know of a newer one. there are several others by or about him FARTHEST NORTH: BEING THE RECORD OF A VOYAGE OF EXPLORATION... 1893-96., Hunting and Adventure in the Arctic , THROUGH SIBERIA. The Land of the future, IN NORTHERN MISTS; ARCTIC EXPLORATION IN EARLY TIMES, Russia & Peace, JOURNEY ACROSS THE INLAND ICE OF GREENLAND FROM EAST TO WEST, Norway and the Union with Sweden, THE SEA-ROUTE TO SIBERIA are a few of them. He did get around. Dana *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
Ari, I searched Advanced Book Exchange (http://www.abebooks.com/) and found 29 listings of several books by Fridtjof Nansen including a few listings of The First Crossing Of Greenland. All were quite expensive. One of the listings was at US $195.00! Nansen's works seem to be more for collectors of rare books. Tony Niilus *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
I must have read an edition from the '30s which is in the Chicago Public Library a few years ago. This is really a wonderful book. *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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