Nansen the Explorer

“First published in 1959…” to the copyright page. Like new, appears unread, and not remaindered. Interior is clean, unmarked and free of any names or plates. Boards (hardcover) are clean, small “ding” to the top corner of the rear board. Bright silver titles to spine. Clipped dustjacket is lightly bumped and rubbed to extremities with a handful of very small chips and tears. Handful of small abrasions and stains to the front wrap. Now protected in archival brodart jacket. One of Norway’s most accomplished explorers Nansen proposed locking a ship in the pack ice and letting it drift across the polar seas and then… gave it a go. Lord Edward Shackleton was the son of famed explorer Ernest Shackleton.