1911 Nebelheim Entdeckung und Erforschung der Nordlichen Lander und Meere

Description

First Edition, Folding Maps, Illustrated

Complete in two volumes. In German Blackletter script. With a beautiful full-colour frontispiece to each volume, as well as a great many in-text maps and drawings and a two colour fold-out map to volume II. Fridtjof Nansen (10 October 1861 – 13 May 1930) was a Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. In his youth a champion skier and ice skater, he led the team that made the first crossing of the Greenland interior in 1888, and won international fame after reaching a record northern latitude of 86°14' during his North Pole expedition of 1893–96. Although he retired from exploration after his return to Norway, his techniques of polar travel and his innovations in equipment and clothing influenced a generation of subsequent Arctic and Antarctic expeditions. With a previous owner's ink inscription to the front free endpaper of both volumes, dated December 1922.