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Hers to him are lost, so I've complemented Nansen's letters with a sampling of Brenda's published work and previously unpublished diaries.

Brenda, My Darling: The Love Letters of Fridtjof Nansen to Brenda Ueland 2012

And she wrote this, after Nansen's death: I have thought of him every day since then.

Brenda, My Darling: The Love Letters of Fridtjof Nansen to Brenda Ueland 2012

Nansen's letters and Brenda's writings, and the hard-won life wisdom they embody, reveal two questing souls who found each other, as truly resonant souls sometimes do.

Brenda, My Darling: The Love Letters of Fridtjof Nansen to Brenda Ueland 2012

The sesquicentennial of Nansen's birth was October 10, 2011.

Brenda, My Darling: The Love Letters of Fridtjof Nansen to Brenda Ueland 2012

The following passages from the book include a sampling of Nansen's letters, Brenda's diaries from the time and some of her later writing:

Brenda, My Darling: The Love Letters of Fridtjof Nansen to Brenda Ueland 2012

Amundsen's trial trip in the Fram and Nansen's voyage in the Frithjof were made with the special object of studying the Gulf Stream in the ocean to the west of the British Isles, and by the help of these investigations it is now possible to chart the current and the extent of the various volumes of water at different depths in this region at that time.

The South Pole~ Fram Expedition Oceanography 2009

As the Gulf Stream is of so great importance to Northern Europe in general, but especially to us Norwegians, it was not a mere accident that three separate expeditions left Norway in the same year, 1910 -- Murray and Hjort's expedition in the Michael Sars, Amundsen's trial trip in the Fram, and Nansen's voyage in the gunboat Frithjof -- all with the object of investigating the conditions in the North Atlantic.

The South Pole~ Fram Expedition Oceanography 2009

The periodical variations caused by the tides will hardly be an adequate explanation of what happens here, although during Murray and Hjort's Atlantic Expedition in the Michael Sars (in 1910), and recently during Nansen's voyage to the Arctic Ocean in the Veslemöy (in 1912), the existence of tidal currents in the open ocean was proved.

The South Pole~ Fram Expedition Oceanography 2009

In Oslo, Norway, she visits Nansen's boat, the Fram, ingeniously designed with sloping, rounded sides to withstand the pressure of Arctic ice and allow him to drift toward the North Pole, a Thule beyond Thule.

The Top Of The World Book Review: The Top Of The World 2006

His work in the Armenian cause sapped much of Nansen's strength in the late 1920s,11 but it did not stop him from planning another polar expedition.

Fridtjof Nansen: Scientist and Humanitarian 2001