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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 120. Chapters: John Stuart Mill, Rudyard Kipling, Guglielmo Marconi, John Cleese, Andrew Carnegie, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Fridtjof Nansen, C. P. Snow, Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Arthur Balfour, J. M. Barrie, Jan Smuts, Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, James Anthony Froude, David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir, Clement Freud, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, Andrew Neil, John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby, Nicholas Parsons, Nicky Campbell, Donald Findlay, David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter, John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, Learie Constantine, Alan Coren, Wilfred Grenfell, Frank Muir, Donald Mackay, 11th Lord Reay, Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne, Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th Baronet, Charles Neaves, James Stuart, David Lindsay, 28th Earl of Crawford, John Rothenstein, Kevin Dunion, Katharine Whitehorn, Stanley Adams, Theodore Martin, Rector of the University of St Andrews, Robert MacGregor Mitchell, George Lokert, Simon Pepper. Excerpt: Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen (1861-1930; English pronunciation: ) was a Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian and Nobel laureate. In his youth a champion skier and ice skater, he led the first crossing of the Greenland interior in 1888, and won international fame after reaching a record northern latitude of 86 14' during his North Pole expedition of 1893-96. Although he retired from exploration after his return to Norway, his techniques of polar travel and his innovations in equipment and clothing influenced a generation of subsequent Arctic and Antarctic expeditions. Nansen studied zoology at the University of Christiania, and later worked as a curator at the Bergen Museum where his work on the centr...
