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NANSEN, FRIDTJOF. The First Crossing of Greenland. 2 vols. 1890 + In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times. 2 vols. 1911
NANSEN, FRIDTJOF. The First Crossing of Greenland. 12 plates; 5 maps. 2 volumes * In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times. Tipped-in color frontispieces; numerous text illustrations. 2 volumes. Together, 4 volumes. 8vo, contemporary 1/2 leather, spines heavily worn, Volume 1 front joint cracked; and 4to, original cloth, Volume 1 spine partly discolored. London, 1890; New York, 1911
- Notes: first edition in english and first american edition, respectively. The first work is an account of the 1888-89 expedition during which Nansen successfully tested the innovation of using skis to cross Greenland, "a risk widely seen as madness" (Books on Ice). Arctic Bibliography 11985, 11993 note.
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