London: Macmillan, 1897. First of the Colonial Library edition, the paper issue. Two volumes, pp (8), 351 ; (viii), (472). Indexed. Free endpapers and pastedowns in both volumes (paged 3-7) used for a list of the series, dated 20.2.97. Books a little leaned; spines darkened with lettering faint, and with small chips at ends and vertical cracks, now neatly repaired; ink owner name in top margin of each front cover; covers have short shallow chips to fore edges and corner creases; page edges tanned; generally VG otherwise, now tight in the bindings, text clean and unworn. Macmillan's Colonial Library # 317 & 318. This paper issue of the Colonial Library edition drops the plates and maps found in the larger Constable and Harper editions of 1897, though at least some of the more common hardcover issue came with a folding map. A classic of Arctic exploration. "Narrative of the First Fram Expedition, 1893-1896, led by Nansen, with the object of investigating the polar basin north of Eurasia by drifting in the ice with the currents northwest from the New Siberian Islands across or near the Pole." - AB 11983. Printing and the Mind of Man 384 (Norwegian edition, Fram over Polhavet). In the Spring of 1895, Nansen, one companion, and his dogs reached 86 degrees 14 minutes north, the closest to the pole that anyone had been to that time (the dogs were too worn out to go all the way). 1.5 kg parcel.; Octavo