Word: fram
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Being the Narrative of the Voyage and Exploration of the "Fram" (1893-1896), and the Fifteen Months' Sledge Expedition by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen. By Dr. Fridtjof Nansen. With an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup. With about 100 Full-page and Numerous Text Illustrations, 16 Colored Plates in Facsimile from Nansen's own Water-Color, Pastel, and Pencil Sketches, and an Etched Portrait, Two Photogravures, and Four Maps. About 1200 pages. Two Volumes, Large Octavo, Gilt Tops, Uncut Edges...
...north, this intrepid explorer, finding his vessel, the "Fram," solidly frozen in the ice, started with one companion, Johansen, for the unknown regions of the North Pole. They left their vessel, equipped with three sledges, two kyacks, and twenty-eight dogs, with provisions for the dogs for thirty days, and for themselves for one hundred days. When this stock was exhausted they lived on seal, walrus and bear meat, when they could get it. The account of the months these two hardy men spent in the polar regions is most thrilling. When a dog died or fell...
...cleverly presented to them to become its strenuous supporters. The three great monotheistic religions are the Jewish, Christian and Mohammedan. It is true that at first the Jewish religion was polytheistic but little by little all the lesser gods lost their devotees and finally after the Jews came back fram their Babylonian captivity in the sixth century B. C., the worship of Jehovah alone was firmly established...