Avonturen van Nansen aan de Noordpool [Adventures of Nansen at the North Pole]

(Arctic Expeditions) Brabant, Else van (pseudonym of E. J. de Moulin van Harlingen). Avonturen van Nansen aan de Noordpool [Adventures of Nansen at the North Pole]. Amsterdam: J. Vlieger, circa 1896. Publisher's original glazed card wrappers with titles and a large image of the Norwegian Arctic explorer, Fridtjof Nansen, printed in colors to front wrapper, and another image of Nansen on skis being pulled across the ice by a dog, with his ship in the ice in the distance to back wrapper; with rubbing and wear along the spine fold, including a split to the lower 2-1/4" of the same, otherwise the book is in an excellent state of preservation. [12] pp. including wrappers; illustrations. A Dutch language children's picture book about the Norwegian polymath's (Fridtjof Nansen's) Fram expedition quest to reach the North Pole. Although Nansen failed to reach the North Pole, his techniques of polar travel and his innovations in equipment and clothing influenced a generation of subsequent Arctic