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Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I
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In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
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‘The distance between hell and heaven is short in these parts,’ Børge Ousland said on our way to the North Pole.
Erling Kagge • Walking: One Step at a Time
One of the British men that Amundsen beat was Sir John Franklin, another polar hero, who died in his Northwest Passage attempt. Franklin, with his large, technologically advanced vessels HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, had packed what he believed to be his guarantor to the expedition’s success: canned food. It was a revolutionary packaging of fresh grub
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In Oslo you can walk all day and still your shoes can remain white.
Erling Kagge • Walking: One Step at a Time
George Melville would serve as the Jeannette’s engineer. Said to be distantly related to the great author, Melville was an improvisational genius with machines—a greasy-fingered savant who seemed most at home among thumping boilers and sharp blasts of steam. The engineer, thirty-eight years old, had a booming voice, a stout physique, and an enormou
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