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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Fridtjof Nansen (1861–1930)

Nansen, Fridtjof (nän’sen). A Norwegian Arctic explorer; born near Christiania, Oct. 10, 1861; died in 1930. His observations, experiences, and discoveries have been carefully noted by him, and published in ‘Farthest North’ (1897); ‘The Norwegian Sea’ (1909); ‘In Northern Mists’ (1911); ‘Through Siberia’ (1914). (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).