In 1893, Fridjtof Nansen set sail in the Fram , a ship specially designed and built to be Frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures, and travel with the sea\'s drift closer to the North Pole than anyone had ever gone before.
Nansen vividly describes the.
This brilliant first-person account, originally published in 1897, marks the beginning of the modern age of exploration.
Experts said such a ship couldn\'t be built and that the Voyage was tantamount to suicide.
In 1893, Fridjtof Nansen set sail in the Fram , a ship specially designed and built to be Frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures, and travel with the sea\'s drift closer to the North Pole than anyone had ever gone before
