The Frozen North offers short sketches of the first men who bravely took great risks to explore the unknown polar regions and unlock the mysteries held there. - Summary by Laura Victoria
Chapters (21)
1Introduction
616
2Sir John Franklin 1818
365
3Franklin's First Land Journey 1819-1821
655
4Franklin's Second Land Journey 1825-1827
450
5The Voyage of the Erebus and the Terror 1845
660
6Elisha Kent Kane 1853
328
7Winter in Rensselaer Harbor 1853-1854
386
8The Eskimoes 1854
388
9Hunting in the Icy North
501
10Home Again 1855
683
11Nordenskjold and the Northeast Passage 1878-1879
1152
12Voyage of the Jeannette 1879-1881
944
13Greely in Grinnell Land 1881-1883
484
14Farthest North of the Greely Party 1882
699
15Lieutenant Schwatka in Alaska 1883
853
16Nansen Crosses Greenland 1888
1498
17The Voyage of the Fram 1893-1896
1047
18Peary Crosses Greenland 1891-1897
1594
19Andrees Balloon Expedition to the Pole 1897
464
20Expedition of 1902
376
21The Discovery of the North Pole by Robert E. Peary
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