This play has a lot in it -- Nansen's bid for the north pole, his humanitarian work, questions of translation of Greek drama, migration and climate change. The central theme holding much if this together is the effectiveness of language versus image in conveying extremes of human endeavour and suffering. (There is an irony here in my reading the book rather than seeing the play on stage!).

There is a danger in including too much, I'm uncertain whether I would have found it too much had I not already an interest in Nansen. Certainly the details and cross-associations are very enjoyable, even if the hanging- togetherness of the whole may not suit some.

I was unaware of this play until I saw it at the bookshop of the Fram Museum, and I feel it is deserving of wider readership than the two LibraryThing members who currently own it! ( )