Nansen (biography)

Nansen (biography)
First edition, 1940
Viking Press

Nansen is a children's biography of Fridtjof Nansen, the Norwegian polar explorer, written by Anna Gertrude Hall and illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff. First published in 1940, it was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1941.[1]

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