Locked in ice : Nansen's daring quest for the North Pole

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A riveting adventure biography of Fridtjof Nansen, the pioneer of polar exploration, with a focus on his harrowing three-year journey to the top of the world. A celebrity among the ranks of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton at the turn of the twentieth century, Fridtjof Nansen contributed tremendous amounts of new information to our knowledge about the Arctic. At a time when the North Pole was still undiscovered territory, he attempted to make it...

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Nansen, Fridtjof, 1861-1930 Juvenile literature

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ISBN:

9781250137647
1250137640

Edition:

First edition

Description:

xix, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Target Audience Note:

Ages: 9-14

Notes:

"Christy Ottaviano Books."
Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

pt. 1: Fridtjof Nansen and his dream 1861-1893
Young skier
The Viking and first Artic ice
Bergen and a daring trek over the mountains
Greenland
Eva
Nansen sets his sights on the North Pole
The plan: follow the Jeannette
Building an ice ship
A crew of twelve
part 2: The journey North
June 24, 1893--March 14, 1894
Leaving home
The Fram locked in ice
Life aboard the Fram: the adventure and monotony of being stuck in ice
Science aboard
Decision to leave the ship
part 3: Outfitting for a two-man dash
February 1895
Preparations
Tent
Clothing
Double sleeping bag
Sleds, kayaks, and guns
Cook kit and medicine
Instruments for navigation
part 4: Onto the ice
March 14--April 6, 1895
Each mile a new record
The cold
First dog to die
The ice, the routine, the dogs
Cracking ice and opening leads
Desperate work
Farthest North
part 5: Turning South
April 8--May 31, 1895
Calculations
Thin ice and burning the third sled
Birthday, narwhals, and bear tracks
The birds come back
part 6: To the kayaks
June 1--July22, 1895
Mending the kayaks
Water sky, the color of hope
One dog left for Nansen, two for Johansen
Salvation is a seal
Seal-blood pancakes and tent on fire
First bear
Departing homesick camp
part 7: Land at last
July 25--August 15, 1895
"We shall reach it today!"
Polar bear attack
Following along glaciers
Rogue walrus
Feet on dry land
part 8: Franz Josef Land
bears, walrus, and a winter home
August 16--September 30, 1895
But what land?
Cold closing in, time to winter over
Harvesting walrus for winter
Building a winter dwelling
part 9: Polar night
October 1--December 31, 1895
Bear-meat soup and blubber cakes
Thieving foxes
Dwelling comfort
Idle Artic days and nights
Leaden darkness outside
Christmas and New Year's Eve
part 10: Preparing to move again-January 1--May 18, 1896
The Tromsø sloop
The return of bears
Final preparations for the journey south
part 11: The journey southward-May 19--June 16, 1896
Departure and a note
Near disaster
A life-or-death swim
Walrus revenge
part 12: Rescue-Cape Flora, Northbrook Island--June 17, 1896
A sound like the bark of a dog
Getting Johansen
Jackson's house
part 13: Norway
June 18--August 12, 1896
Vanishing caveman
Time with Jackson
The Windward
Return to Vardø
part 14: Home-August 13--September 9, 1896
Vardø
Eva and Liv
Tromsø reunion
What had happened to the Fram?
Kristiania
Epilogue 1896-1930

LCCN:

2018021065

Control Number:

2730619

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