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Excerpt from Farthest North, Vol. 1 of 2: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship "Fram" 1893-96 and of a Fifteen Months' Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen
A time will come in later years when the Ocean will unloose the bands of things, when the immeasurable earth will lie open, when sea farers will discover new countries, and Thule will no longer be the ex treme point among the lands. - seneca.
Unseen and untrodden under their Spotless mantle of ice the rigid polar regions slept the profound Sleep of death from the earliest dawn of time. Wrapped in his white Shroud, the mighty giant stretched his Clammy ice-limbs abroad, and dreamed his age-long dreams.
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A time will come in later years when the Ocean will unloose the bands of things, when the immeasurable earth will lie open, when sea farers will discover new countries, and Thule will no longer be the ex treme point among the lands. - seneca.
Unseen and untrodden under their Spotless mantle of ice the rigid polar regions slept the profound Sleep of death from the earliest dawn of time. Wrapped in his white Shroud, the mighty giant stretched his Clammy ice-limbs abroad, and dreamed his age-long dreams.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Author(s) - Fridtjof Nansen
Paperback
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780282089528
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 3.4 cm
Page Count - 645
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