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NANSEN, Fridtjof (1861-1930). Farthest North. Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship “Fram" 1893-96 and of a Fifteen Months' Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johnson. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1897. 8vos. Illustrated with 120 full page and numerous other text illustrations, 16 colored plates and etched portrait with tissue guards intact, photogravures, and 4 loose maps in protective pockets. 518; 714 pp. Publisher's full brown cloth, front boards stamped in colors, spines stamped in gilt (some rubbing, soiling to bindings, occasional soiling in text). Very good. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. The Nobel Laureate's (Peace Prize) account of his three-year-long expedition. In 1893, Fridtjof Nansen set sail for the North Pole in the Fram, a ship specially designed to be frozen into the polar ice cap to withstand its crushing pressures and drift North. Given up for dead, he traveled 146 miles farther north than anyone else in the previous 400 years. Arctic Bibliography 11983.