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IN this study of Nansens personality, the author has had access to various private diaries that help to explain Nansens success in all he attempted and at the same time show the apparent contradictions of the man. He had an extraordinarily wide range of interests and found it difficult to keep to any one line of activity. A dreamy melancholy would give way to buoyant enthusiasm and he would see clearly his path and go forward indifferent to any form of discouragement. He had the capacity for solitude and the steadfast pioneering spirit that are so characteristic of his race.
The Saga of Fridtjof Nansen.
By Jon Sörensen. Translated from the Norwegian by J. B. C. Watkins. Pp. ix + 372 + 8 plates. (London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1932.) 18s. net.
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B., R. The Saga of Fridtjof Nansen . Nature 132, 120 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132120b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/132120b0