FARTHEST NORTH.: Being the record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram, 1893-96, And of a Fifteen Months' Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen with an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup Captain of the Fram.

London; MacMillan; 1897.. First Colonial Edition (Published in the same year as the First Edition); Cr. 8vo; Volume I. pp. viii, 351; Volume II. pp. viii, 471; both volumes bound in their original blue cloth, titles lettered in gilt on spines, cloth a little worn, endpapers browned, good set. Nansen's Fram expedition of 1893-1896 was an attempt to reach the geographical North Pole by harnessing the natural east-west current of the Arctic Ocean. Nansen took his ship Fram to the New Siberian Islands in the eastern Arctic Ocean, froze her into the pack ice, and waited for the drift to carry her towards the pole. Impatient with the slow speed and erratic character of the drift, after 18 months Nansen and a chosen companion, Hjalmar Johansen, left the ship with a team of Samoyed dogs and sledges and made for the pole. They did not reach it, but they achieved a record Farthest North latitude of 86°13.6'N before a long retreat over ice and water to reach safety in Franz Josef Land. Meanwhile, Fram continued to drift westward, finally emerging in the North Atlantic Ocean.