By Fridtjof Nansen

Paris, Flammarion, 1897. Lg8vo, [viii], 424pp. 2 Appendices. Original Publishers wraps. With 200 photographic and wood-engraved maps, views, plates and illustrations, including frontispiece-portrait of Nansen. A Good+ and complete copy showing wear to the original printed spine — chipping at base of spine with some loss of paper but no loss of text, upper left corner of front cover with small chip loss but no loss of text or image. Internally with no foxing, folds, tears and no prior ownership markings. Text in French.

Heavily illustrated French publication of the account of the famous North Polar Expedition 1893-1896 of Fridtjof Nansen. Nansen laid the basis for modern Polar science, and later he also played a large role in international politics, in the League of Nations, also receiving the Nobel Prize for Peace.