WHEN Gerrit de Veer published his “True and perfect description” of Barents' voyages for the discovery of a North-east passage, “so strange and woonderfull that the like hath never been ...

After 15 weeks in the far north, the time had come to follow Nansen's ghost home. "Nansen was way ahead of his time in how he thought about the Arctic and how to travel in it," Ousland said.