This work is best seen as Nansen’s defense of the Greenlanders against the onslaughts of “civilization.”
Eskimo Life.
Nansen, Fridtjof. Translated by William Archer. Second Edition. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894.
- Arctic Reading: Inuit and other indigenous people
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Farthest North.
Nansen, Fridtjof. Jan Krakauer, Series Editor. Introduction by Roland Huntford. New York, Modern Library, 1999.
- 1893-96 Norwegian North Pole Expedition (Fridthof Nansen aboard Fram).
- Arctic Reading: Europe including Scandinavia
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On Nansen’s 1893-96 Fram expedition and the first wintering over.
In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times.
Nansen, Fridtjof. Translated by Arthur G. Chater. Two volumes. London: William Heinemann, 1911.
- Arctic Reading: Europe including Scandinavia
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Nansen’s second major work, this book covers only the earliest period of Northern exploration and could well be titled “In Northern Myths.” He is certainly among the earliest and most scholarly, literary, and research-oriented writers of exploration history, the work verges little upon the subject of our inquiry.