Fridtjof Nansen Letters 1921-1922

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Fridtjof Nansen Letters 1921-1922

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Two letters from the Norwegian explorer, one to a student, Olav Mosby, and the other to William Melland of the Russian Famine Relief Fund.

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Syracuse University. Library. Special Collections Research Center

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Russian Famine Relief Fund.

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Nansen, Fridtjof, 1861-1930

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Epithet: Norwegian explorer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000471.0x000249 Fridtjof Nansen, a Norwegian explorer, oceanographer, and statesman, was noted for his Arctic expedition of 1893-1896, travelling closer to the North Pole than anyone had reached and using his specially-built vessel "Fram" to demonstrate the revolutionary concept of pack-ice drift. Frederick Sydney Parry was the grandson of Arctic explo...