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Sunday, October 18, 2009
Friday, October 9, 2009
As in Jacmel, as in Montrouis…
Little has changed from these kodachromes taken in 1949. The same style, the beauty and ugliness and above all the same “hope” that can be felt in each corner of the peasants in the countryside. Haiti with a lovely glamour declined afterwards and became the sad sun rising everyday in muddy waters…
Thursday, October 8, 2009
FARTHEST NORTH
Sigurd Scott-Hansen
(From a photograph taken in December, 1893)
Landing on Yalmal
(By Otto Sinding, from a Photograph)
A warm (?!) corner among the walruses, off East Taimur
(By Otto Sinding)
A chronometer observation with the theodolite
Johansen Scott-Hansen
(From a photograph)
Observing the eclipse of the sun. April 6, 1894
Johansen Nansen Scott-Hansen
(From a photograph)
Plate VIII.
Moonlight, 22nd November 1893. Pastel Sketch.
A vertical axis passes through the moon with a strongly-marked luminous patch where it intersects the horizon. A suggestion of a horizontal axis on each side of the moon; portions of the moon-ring with mock moons visible on either hand.
From the book “Farthest North”
Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896
Author: Fridtjof Nansen
Contributor: Otto Sverdrup
Always new interesting discoveries on Guttenberg.org
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
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