Title
The Fram expedition : Nansen in the frozen world : preceded by a biography of the great explorer and copious extracts from Nansen's "First crossing of Greenland," also an account by Eivind Astrup, of life among people near the Pole, and his Journey across northern Greenland with Lieut. R.E. Peary, U.S.N. / arranged and edited by S.L. Berens, cand. phil. ; followed by a brief history of the principal earlier Arctic explorations from the ninth century to the Peary expedition, including those of Cabot, Frobisher, Bering, Sir John Franklin, Kane, Hayes, Hall, Nordenskjöld, Nares, Schwatka, DeLong, Greely, and others by John E. Read.
Published
Philadelphia, Pa. : A.J. Holman & Co., publishers, c1897.
Physical Description
[2], viii, [9]-560 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., ports., maps ; 24 cm
Contents
Nansen in the frozen world
Nansen's story as told by himself
Peary's journey across northern Greenland, the North Greenland expedition of 1891-92 / written by Eivind Astrup
Brief history of the principal earlier Arctic explorations / by John E. Read
Polar expeditions of 1897.