@article{Alnæs_2008, title={Heroes and Nomads in Norwegian Polar Explorer Literature}, url={https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/1160}, DOI={10.7557/13.1160}, abstractNote={In 1888 six Norwegians crossed the Greenland-ice on skis. Two years after, the expedition leader Fridtjof Nansen published the book <em>På ski over Grønland</em> (English title: <em>The First Crossing of Greenland</em>) about the expedition. In Norway, this book has had an enormous influence and for modern Norwegian travel authors, it has become a kind of centre from which they organise their travels and their writing. This paper will focus on how <em>På ski over Grønland</em> has been read and its impact on the travel genre. Also, I will look briefly at another book published by the Norwegian Bjørn Staib, about 85 years after Nansen's. This book too is importatant in the Norwegian polar explorer discourse.}, number={23}, journal={Nordlit}, author={Alnæs, Jørgen}, year={2008}, month={Feb.}, pages={11–24} }