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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: 96. Chapters: Neil Armstrong, Robert Falcon Scott, Rachel Carson, Buzz Aldrin, Robert Peary, Fridtjof Nansen, Michael Collins, Ernest Shackleton, William Morris Davis, Albert I, Prince of Monaco, Georg von Neumayer, Bruce C. Heezen, Sven Hedin, Arthur Robert Hinks, Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, Matthew Henson, Jovan Cviji, George Washington Goethals, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, Rene Dubos, John Murray, Maurice Ewing, Louise Boyd, C. W. Thornthwaite, Chauncy Harris, Hugh Hammond Bennett, Yi-Fu Tuan, Robert Bell, Kenneth Hare, Francisco Moreno, Jack Dangermond, Luna Leopold, Peter Haggett, Cullum Geographical Medal, Frederick Haynes Newell, Bertram Thomas, Peter Smith, Albert P. Crary, Jean-Baptiste Charcot, John Scott Keltie, Ellen Churchill Semple, Robert Cushman Murphy, Wilbur Zelinsky, Kirtley F. Mather, Hugh Robert Mill, Hermann Wagner, Lucien Gallois, Alfred Hettner, Emmanuel de Margerie, Arthur Donaldson Smith. 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 central nervous system of lower marine creatures earned him a doctorate and helped establish modern theories of neurology. After 1896 his main scientific interest ...
