Geografisk tidskrift
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Page : 100 pages
File Size : 20,80 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Geography
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Page : 100 pages
File Size : 20,80 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Geography
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Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 10,77 MB
Release : 1886
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Author : Fr. C. C. Hansen
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Page : 80 pages
File Size : 23,83 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Greenland
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Page : 492 pages
File Size : 11,57 MB
Release : 1880
Category : Earthquakes
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Author : Cornell University. Libraries
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Page : 612 pages
File Size : 50,8 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Icelandic language
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Author : Frederik Carl Christian Hansen
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Page : 76 pages
File Size : 37,68 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Greenland
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Page : 568 pages
File Size : 37,37 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Research
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Author : Smithsonian Institution
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Page : 1076 pages
File Size : 25,23 MB
Release : 1886
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Author : Roland Huntford
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 33,82 MB
Release : 2012-08-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1405520329
Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar exploration, the last act of territorial discovery before the leap into space began. Nansen was a prime illustration of Carlyle's dictum that 'the history of the world is but the biography of great men'. He was not merely a pioneer in the wildly diverse fields of oceanography and skiing, but one of the founders of neurology. A restless, unquiet Faustian spirit, Nansen was a Renaissance Man born out of his time into the new Norway of Ibsen and Grieg. He was an artist and historian, a diplomat who had dealings with Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin, and played a part in the Versailles Peace Conference, where he helped the Americans in their efforts to contain the Bolsheviks. He also undertook famine relief in Russia. Finally, working for the League of Nations as both High Commissioner for Refugees and High Commissioner for the Repatriation of Prisoners of War, he became the first of the modern media-conscious international civil servants.
Author : Justin Winsor
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Page : 568 pages
File Size : 19,55 MB
Release : 1889
Category : America
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