{"product_id":"9780571262649","title":"Fram","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReliance on devices like the photograph and slide\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ewill lead, I rather fear, to linguistic suicide.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe must keep on challenging language to engage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ewith all we suffer from in this new modern age.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThis epic sweep of a play takes us from a contemporary Westminster Abbey to the Arctic ship Fram - or Forward - specially built by the famous Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen who, with his suicidal companion, Johansen, makes a bid on foot for the North Pole in the 1890s. Though incompatible, they share a bear fur sleeping-bag through the long winter. Nansen, still haunted by Johansen's ghost is appointed to the League of Nations. As a figurehead of Russian famine relief in 1922, he conducts the first celebrity campaign, searching for means, however shocking, to make people care. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTony Harrison's major new work for the theatre, \u003ci\u003eFram,\u003c\/i\u003e premiered at the National Theatre in April 2007.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber and Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47157695906032,"sku":"9780571262649","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780571262649_p0.jpg?v=1763718866","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780571262649","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}