Locked in Ice: Nansen’s Daring Quest for the North Pole

An adventurer who stands alongside polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, Fridtjof Nansen contributed tremendous amounts of new information to our knowledge about the Polar Arctic. At a time when the North Pole was still undiscovered territory, he attempted the journey in a way most experts thought mad: Nansen purposefully locked his ship in ice for three years in order to float northward along the currents.

Although geared toward younger readers, this is a richly illustrated account with many historic photographs which celebrates the legacy of an extraordinary adventurer who pushed the boundaries of human exploration to further science into the twentieth century.