Nansen, Roland Huntford, Duckworth, London, 1997, Nansen: The Explorer as Hero is a well-crafted, masterfully researched biography of Fridtjof Nansen,

Nansen, Roland Huntford, Duckworth, London, 1997, Nansen: The Explorer as Hero is a well-crafted, masterfully researched biography of Fridtjof Nansen, the Norwegian doctor-scientist some consider the greatest polar explorer of all. Written by Roland Huntford, the author of the critically-acclaimed biography of Shackleton, Nansen reveals the man by telling the life. At times, it reads almost like an adventure story: Nansen's audacious scheme to reach the North Pole by having his ship frozen in Arctic ice seems as exciting and reckless now as it did more than a century ago. By the point in the biography when the Oslo-born explorer wins the Nobel Prize, we almost feel that we have earned it with him.

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Nansen, Roland Huntford, Duckworth, London, 1997, Nansen: The Explorer as Hero is a well-crafted, masterfully researched biography of Fridtjof Nansen, the Norwegian doctor-scientist some consider the greatest polar explorer of all. Written by Roland Huntford, the author of the critically-acclaimed biography of Shackleton, Nansen reveals the man by telling the life. At times, it reads almost like an adventure story: Nansen's audacious scheme to reach the North Pole by having his ship frozen in Arctic ice seems as exciting and reckless now as it did more than a century ago. By the point in the biography when the Oslo-born explorer wins the Nobel Prize, we almost feel that we have earned it with him.