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RE: Jules Verne Fram Nansen

From: Jean-Pierre Boutin <boutin~at~versailles.inra.fr>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:36:01 +0200
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Dear friends,

Nansen was influenced by an American expedition with a boat, the Jeanette headed by Lieutenant Delong, aiming at making anew the North-East passage (the first was Nordenskjiold with the Vega). The boat was caught by the ice around the middle of its travel (north Siberia) and began to drift north. The crew abandoned her (only few survived). Several years later, (5 as far as I remind), fishers found parts of the Jeanette around the Greenland, suggesting that the boat travelled in ice between Siberia and Greenland and thus passed around the North Pole. The Fram was designed to resist to ice pressure and thus being able to make the same travel than the Jeanette keeping its crew safe. Nansen did not succeed to reach the North Pole but approached it and had, with its friend Johansen, extraordinary adventures when returning home.

I never heard about influence of Hatteras on Nansen about its attempt to reach North Pole. At this time a lot of books relating similar (and real) attempts were published and my opinion is that Nansen was first influenced by these books as JV himself when writing the Hatteras adventures.

Jean-Pierre

Chris,

 

Sorry, I have no idea.  Perhaps members of the Jules Verne forum have heard something.  Can any of you help Chris with his inquiry?

 

Dennis

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris FitzHugh [mailto:chris.fitzhugh~at~ntlworld.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 9:40 PM
To: djk~at~epguides.com
Subject: Jules Verne Fram Nansen

Nansen called his boat  FRAM. This is Norwegian for Forward. I presume that he was influenced by the Jules Verne story of Hatteras going to the North Pole. But nowhere in any book by or on Nansen can I find this connection, which seems obvious unless pure coincidence. Nansen was highly intelligent and educated and would probably have read it in French / English. Have you come across such a connection? Any info. woul delight me, Chris FitzHugh of Nottingham, UK

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