"In the night and among the ice", Fridtjof Nansen
Title:"At night and in the ice".
Author: Fridtjof Nansen.
Editorial: Editorial Planeta.
Sentence: "My back was all I wanted in life. What had before me?».
Critical Vap: Nansen es, with permission from Amundsen, the largest Norwegian explorer of all time and that, en un pueblo acostumbrado a empujar a sus hijos «a los vastos espacios desconocidos saturados de aventura», It is an excellent business card. Nansen starred, between 1893 and 1896, one of the most memorable feats polar. Convinced that allow ocean currents to cross the Arctic Circle, se embarcó en el «Fram» (later in Norwegian, A declaration of intentions) willing to be led by the drift of the ice cap in the Kara Sea. His goal was as simple as foolhardy: «Cruzaremos los hielos en dirección norte hasta donde sea posible». And 16 months only advanced 360 miles, But that's not important. Facing down adversity, He dismounted and using a sledge managed to reach the northernmost latitude hitherto trodden by any human being. Nansen's journal distilled narrative epics capitalized, those not detract to the legendary Ulysses, because, After the, as the author rightly emphasizes, «¿qué valor tendría la vida sin sus sueños?»
