Audiobooks by Fridtjof Nansen

An Audio Bundle: Explore & Rescue Audiobook

"Explore offers first-hand accounts from the world’s boldest explorers, men and women encountering storms, starvation, cannibals, predators and disease in their pursuit of adventure. Their stories are immediate, passionate and dramatic accounts of contact with the unknown, discovered in the Himalaya, the ruins of Peru, the jungles of New Guinea and the Amazon, the ice flows of the Arctic, along with death in the big city. With selections from Tim Cahill, Redmond O’Hanlon, John Long, Fridtjof Nansen and Harold Brodkey, Explore will take you off the map to those few refuges where true discovery is still possible. Rescue: Stories of Survival From Land and Sea offers stories about what happens when things go terribly wrong in some of the world’s most perilous places: Himalayan peaks, African plains, vast oceans, remote Arctic wilderness. But mostly, Rescue is about what humans can endure and achieve in the face of overwhelming duress. Both Explore and Rescue are Publishers Weekly 'Listen Up' Award winners."

Alan Kesselheim, Dorcas S. Miller, Dwight Brooks, Fridtjof Nansen, Gene Savoy, Geoffrey Childs, Harold Brodkey, Jack Olsen, John Long, Kenneth Grahame, Lawrence Millman, Nina Mazuchelli, Pete Sinclair, Ralph Barker, Redmond O’hanlon, Sir Wilfred Grenfell, Thomas James, Tim Cahill (Author), Anne Flosnik, Colleen Delany, David Elias, Gary Telles, Graeme Malcolm, Grover Gardner, Nick Sampson, Terence Aselford (Narrator)

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Farthest North: The Epic Adventure of a Visionary Explorer

"In 1893 Norwegian zoologist Fridtjof Nansen set sail for the North Pole in the Fram, a ship specially designed to be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures, and travel north with the sea’s drift. Experts said that such a ship couldn’t be built and that the mission was tantamount to suicide. Farthest North, first published in 1897 to great popular appeal, is the stirring first-person account of the Fram and her historic voyage. Nansen tells of his expedition’s struggle against snowdrifts, ice floes, polar bears, scurvy, gnawing hunger, and the seemingly endless polar night that transformed the Fram into a “cold prison of loneliness.” Once it became clear that the Fram could drift no farther, Nansen and crew member Hjalmar Johansen set out on a harrowing fifteen-month sledge journey to reach their destination by foot, which required them to share a sleeping bag of rotting reindeer fur and to feed the weaker sled dogs to the stronger ones. In the end, they traveled 146 miles farther north than any westerner had gone before, representing the greatest single gain in polar exploration in four centuries. Farthest North is an unforgettable story that marks the beginning of the modern age of exploration and is a must-read for the armchair adventurer."

Fridtjof Nansen (Author), Ulf Bjorklund (Narrator)

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Explore: Stories of Survival From Off The Map

"Explore offers first-hand accounts from the world's boldest explorers, men and women encountering storms, starvation, cannibals, predators and disease in their pursuit of adventure. Their stories are immediate, passionate and dramatic accounts of contact with the unknown, discovered in the Himalaya, the ruins of Peru, the jungles of New Guinea and the Amazon, the ice flows of the Arctic, along with death in the big city. With selections from Tim Cahill, Redmond O'Hanlon, John Long, Fridtjof Nansen and Harold Brodkey, Explore will take you off the map to those few refuges where true discovery is still possible."

Dwight Brooks, Fridtjof Nansen, Gene Savoy, Harold Brodkey, John Long, Lawrence Millman, Nina Mazuchelli, Redmond O'hanlon, Tim Cahill (Author), Anne Flosnik, Colleen Delany, Gary Telles, Grover Gardner, Nick Sampson (Narrator)

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[German] - Auf Schneeschuhen übers Gebirge

Fridtjof Nansen (Author), Unknown (Narrator)

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[German] - Entdeck mich! II: Weltberühmte Expeditionen: Burton - Darwin - Kessler - Nansen

"In der zweiten Box mit Reisetagebüchern kommen weitere berühmte Forscher, Entdecker und Männer von Welt zu Wort. Charles Darwin reist auf der Beagle bis zu den Galapagos-Inseln, Fridtjof Nansen kämpft sich durch arktisches Eis, Sir Richard Francis Burton besucht Medina und Mekka, und Harry Graf Kessler skizziert ein Bild der USA Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts. Die Sprecher Frank Arnold, Johannes Steck und Gerd Wameling eröffnen neue Perspektiven auf Länder und Menschen sowie spannende Einblicke in das Leben hinter den berühmten Namen."

Charles Darwin, Fridtjof Nansen, Harry Graf Kessler, Richard Francis Burton (Author), Frank Arnold, Gerd Wameling, Johannes Steck (Narrator)

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[German] - In Nacht und Eis: Reisebericht gelesen von Johannes Steck

"In den Jahren 1895/96 unternimmt Fridtjof Nansen eine waghalsige Expedition zum Nordpol. Nach ein paar Monaten droht der Proviant auszugehen. Bei dem Versuch, einen Seehund zu harpunieren, kentert beinahe der Kajak, und die Jäger erleiden ein eiskaltes Bad. Jeden Abend schreibt Nansen seine Erlebnisse zitternd vor Kälte im Zelt sitzend auf - besessen von dem Gedanken, den Pol zu erreichen. Johannes Steck liest die Aufzeichnungen packend und mitreißend - eine Empfehlung nicht nur für Freunde klassischer Reiseberichte."

Fridtjof Nansen (Author), Johannes Steck (Narrator)

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