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Read Ebook: The Great White North The story of polar exploration from the earliest times to the discovery of the pole by Wright Helen S Helen Saunders
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Early adventurers. Pytheas.--Dicuil.--Other.--Wulfstan.--The Norsemen.--Iva Bardsen.--The Cabots.--The Cortereals.--Willoughby and Chancellor.--Stephen Burrough.--Niccol? Zeno.--Frobisher.--Pet and Jackman.--Sir Humphrey Gilbert.--Davis.--Barentz 1
Seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Hudson.--Baffin.--Deshneff.--Behring.--Schalaroff.--Tchitschagof.--Anjou and Von Wrangell.--Phipps 18
Dr. Hayes's expedition. Winter quarters at Port Foulke, Greenland coast.--Death of Sonntag.--Dr. Hayes's journey.--Attempt to cross Smith Sound.--Hayes's farthest.--"Open Polar Sea."--Homeward bound 235
Dr. Frederick A. Cook.--Claims discovery of the Pole.--His return from the Arctic.--Reception by the Danes.--Announcement of conquest of the Pole by Peary.--Denounces Dr. Cook.--Acceptance of Peary's claims by the American Geographical Society.--Dr. Cook sends manuscript to Copenhagen.--Verdict.--Prior claim to the discovery of the North Pole.--Not proven 470
EXPLANATION OF TERMS 477
INDEX 481
Hondius his Map of the Arctike Pole, or Northerne World xx
FACING PAGE
Sebastian Cabot 3
Sir Hugh Willoughby 7
Martin Frobisher 10
Sir Humphrey Gilbert 14
The Death of Henry Hudson 21
Peter Feodorovitsch Anjou 28
Ferdinand von Wrangell 28
Captain John Ross, R.N. 32
Entering Lancaster Sound 52
John Franklin 80
Upernavik 99
Henry Grinnell 110
The Graves on Beechey Island 113
E. K. Kane 120
The Rescue in Melville Bay 128
Landing near Grinnell Cape 170
Nipped in the Ice 180
A Gale in the Arctic Sea 209
The Outlook from Cape George Russell 215
Humboldt Glacier 218
Five Members of the Grinnell Expedition 231
Tennyson's Monument 234
Frobisher's Map of Meta Incognita 243
Funeral of Captain Hall 254
Jan Mayen Island 273
A. E. Nordenskj?ld 288
Foul Bay 305
Disco Island 320
Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka, U.S.A. 337
W. H. Gilder 344
Captain G. W. De Long, U.S.N. 352
Rear Admiral George W. Melville, U.S.N. 369
Colonel David Legge Brainard, U.S.A. 373
Lieutenant James B. Lockwood, U.S.A. 380
General A. W. Greely, U.S.A. 384
Rear Admiral Schley, U.S.N. 400
The Retreat of 1904--Sledge Column leaving Cape Mellinbock 433
Breaking Camp at Cape Richthope 433
Anthony Fiala 437
Roald Amundsen 444
Cape Flora in Early July, 1904 448
The Coal Mine at Cape Flora 448
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