Heroes and Nomads in Norwegian Polar Explorer Literature

In 1888 six Norwegians crossed the Greenland-ice on skis. Two years after, the expedition leader Fridtjof Nansen published the book På ski over Grønland (English title: The First Crossing of Greenland) about the expedition. In Norway, this book has had an enormous influence and for modern Norwegian...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Nordlit
Main Author: Jørgen Alnæs
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Norwegian
Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2008
Subjects:
Litteratur
På ski over Grønland
The first crossing of Greenland
On ski towards the North Pole
reiseskildring
travel literature
Norwegian literature
PT8301-9155
Greenland
Norway
North Pole
Fridtjof
Bjørn
Fridtjof Nansen
Grønland
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.7557/13.1160
https://doaj.org/article/09b3343679da448597c6103e39d9137b
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Summary:In 1888 six Norwegians crossed the Greenland-ice on skis. Two years after, the expedition leader Fridtjof Nansen published the book På ski over Grønland (English title: The First Crossing of Greenland) about the expedition. In Norway, this book has had an enormous influence and for modern Norwegian travel authors, it has become a kind of centre from which they organise their travels and their writing. This paper will focus on how På ski over Grønland has been read and its impact on the travel genre. Also, I will look briefly at another book published by the Norwegian Bjørn Staib, about 85 years after Nansen's. This book too is importatant in the Norwegian polar explorer discourse.

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