Fridtjof Nansen Quote

Unseen and untrodden under this spotless mantle of ice the rigid polar regions slept profound sleep of death from the earliest dawn of time.


Farthest North, Chapter I (p. 1), Harper & Brothers. 1899


Unseen and untrodden under this spotless mantle of ice the rigid polar regions slept profound sleep of death from the earliest dawn of time.

Unseen and untrodden under this spotless mantle of ice the rigid polar regions slept profound sleep of death from the earliest dawn of time.

Unseen and untrodden under this spotless mantle of ice the rigid polar regions slept profound sleep of death from the earliest dawn of time.

Unseen and untrodden under this spotless mantle of ice the rigid polar regions slept profound sleep of death from the earliest dawn of time.