Farthest North (The Complete Journey - Unabridged)Product Description Diaries of Nansen's lunatic three year long expedition to the North Pole, which made him the John Krakauer of his age. In 1893 Fridtjof Nansen set sail for the North Pole in the Fram, a ship specially designed to be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures, and so drift North. Experts said that such a mission was tantamount to suicide. This is the stirring first person account of this historic voyage. Nansen