The Incredible Three-Year Voyage to the Frozen Latitudes of the North
by
Fridjtof Nansen
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2000
In 1893 Nansen set sail in the Fram, a ship specially designed and built to be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures, and travel with the sea's drift closer to the North Pole than anyone had ever gone before. Experts said such a ship couldn't be built and that the voyage...