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Farthest North

“Not since the publication of Mr. Stanley's 'In Darkest Africa' has any work of travel been received with the enthusiastic welcome accorded to Dr. Nansen's 'Farthest North.'” –The Publisher, 1897 Written for the popular reading public, "Far

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Fridtjof Nansen (4)

“Hope is a rickety craft to trust one’s self to.”

— Fridtjof Nansen, amazon.com

Tagged: Hope, Rickety

“…beneath this crust, hundreds of fathoms down, there teems a world of checkered life in all its changing forms, a world of the same composition as ours, with the same instincts, the same sorrows, and also, no doubt, the same joys; everywhere the same struggle for existence. So it ever is. If we pene…”

— Fridtjof Nansen, amazon.com

Tagged: Exterior, Shell, Defensiveness, Sorrow, Joy

“Love is life's snow. It falls deepest and softest into the gashes left by the fight whiter and purer than snow itself.”

— Fridtjof Nansen, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Pure, Snow

“Here I sit in the still winter night on the drifting ice-floe, and see only stars above me. Far off I see the threads of life twisting themselves into the intricate web which stretches unbroken from life’s sweet morning dawn to the eternal death-stillness of ice. Thought follows thought—you pick the…”

— Fridtjof Nansen, amazon.com

Tagged: Ice-Floe, Siberia, Hope, Eternity