The First Crossing of Greenland

work by Nansen
Also known as: “Paa Ski Over Grønland”

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    …developed after the publication of The First Crossing of Greenland (Paa ski over Grønland; 1890), Fridtjof Nansen’s account of his 1888–89 trans-Greenland expedition on skis.

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