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Title: Fridtiof Nansen, 1861-1893
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Brøgger, Waldemar Christopher, 1851-1940 Rolfsen, Nordahl, 1848-1928 Archer, William, 1856-1924
Subjects: Nansen, Fridtjof, 1861-1930
Publisher: London, New York, Bombay, Longmans, Green and Co.
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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will, born of strength,and nurtured by intelligence. We do not reckon Arctic exploration among the highestproblems of humanity. Life certainly presents even sternertests of courage and self-sacrifice than those to which theexplorer, or for that matter the soldier, is subjected. But the history of Polar explorationâthat battle of thehuman soul and body against Nature in the guise of the icesphinx, that campaign of the spirit of inquiry, of investiga-tion, with its faithful vigils through the long nights ofshuddering coldâforms one of the most moving chapters inthe human Bible, the record of our race with its destinysseal on its brow, ^ the story of greatly willing, acting, andsuffering man. It is a chapter of victorious defeats. Polar exploration is now in its third millennium. If theNorth Pole is reached in this century or the next, the boun-dary of knowledge within the Polar Circle will have movedforward, on an average, something under a mile for every 1 Peer Gynt, Act V. Sc. 10.
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ARCTIC EXPEDITIONS FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES 225 year since first an adventurous galley brought tidings of an iceocean in the north. And the rate of progress will reach thisaverage only if at last a sort of spurt is made to cover theremaining distance. At the average rate of progress whicheven our steam-driven century has attained, three hundredyears would still be required for the completion of the task. And yet the distance to the ISForth Pole from the beaconbuilt fourteen years ago by Lieutenant Lockwood on thelittle island which bears his name, off the north coast ofGreenland, is no more than any reasonably good walker inone of the tourist districts of Europe would cover with thegreatest ease in less than a month! But the ice path is harder to tackle. Even in the heightof summer, when now and then a lane of open water is tobe met with among the floes. Parry and Eoss did not pro-gress more than some four miles a day. Markham coveredten miles, and found that his net advance had beenâ

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