Paa Ski Over Gronland [With Ski over Greenland] ~ The First Crossing of Greenland] — 1st Norwegian Edition

­ en Skildring Af Den Norske Gronlands-Ekspedition 1888-89

By Fridtjof Nansen

Kristiana 1890—First Norwegian Edition. Scarce. Thick 8vo., Vol. I: [xii], 704pp. frontis of Nansen, five full page plates, numerous woodcuts, 5 fold-out maps—4 in colour; numerous woodcut illustrations in text, numerous b/w photographs in text—some full page. Half leather with pebbled cloth. Bright gilt bands and title on spine. A Very Good copy showing no prior ownership markings, no foxing, folds or tears—very clean internally. Spine face showing some vertical cracking to leather. A Scarce and complete First Norwegian Edition documenting this most important Norwegian Greenland Expedition.

Nansen succeeded in traversing the previously unchartered interior of Greenland forcing a passage through the floe-belt, land on the desolate and ice-bound east coast and thence cross over to the inhabited west coast. A feat he aptly summed up as “death or the west coast of Greenland.” This is a very well documented account and first person narrative. Text in Norwegian.