Arctic exploration

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Arctic exploration by J. Douglas Hoare.

Contents

• ARCTIC EXPLORATION5
• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS9
• CHAPTER I EARLY VOYAGES12
• CHAPTER II FROM HUDSON TO PHIPPS AND NELSON23
• CHAPTER III THE VOYAGE OF BUCHAN AND FRANKLIN32
• CHAPTER IV ROSS’S FAILURES AND PARRY’S SUCCESSES36
• CHAPTER V FRANKLIN’S FIRST OVERLAND JOURNEY43
• CHAPTER VI PARRY’S LAST NORTH-WEST VOYAGES56
• CHAPTER VII FRANKLIN’S SECOND LAND JOURNEY60
• CHAPTER VIII PARRY’S NORTH-POLAR VOYAGE66
• CHAPTER IX ROSS’S ADVENTURES IN THE “VICTORY”71
• CHAPTER X BACK’S TWO JOURNEYS77
• CHAPTER XI THE DISCOVERIES OF DEASE AND SIMPSON82
• CHAPTER XII FRANKLIN’S LAST VOYAGE91
• CHAPTER XIII RAE AND THE BOOTHIA PENINSULA95
• CHAPTER XIV THE FRANKLIN SEARCH BEGUN100
• CHAPTER XV THE VOYAGES OF COLLINSON AND M’CLURE106
• CHAPTER XVI BELCHER AND THE FRANKLIN SEARCH115
• CHAPTER XVII RAE’S JOURNEYS OF 1851-53121
• CHAPTER XVIII M’CLINTOCK AND THE “FOX”127
• CHAPTER XIX THE VOYAGES OF KANE AND HAYES138
• CHAPTER XX HALL AND THE “POLARIS”145
• CHAPTER XXI THE “GERMANIA” AND THE “HANSA”151
• CHAPTER XXII THE VOYAGE OF THE “TEGETTHOFF”156
• CHAPTER XXIII NARES AND SMITH SOUND162
• CHAPTER XXIV THE GREELY TRAGEDY167
• CHAPTER XXV NORDENSKIÖLD AND HIS WORK175
• CHAPTER XXVI THE STORY OF THE “JEANNETTE”181
• CHAPTER XXVII LEIGH SMITH AND THE “EIRA”187
• CHAPTER XXVIII GREENLAND AND THE EARLIER JOURNEYS OF NANSEN AND PEARY190
• CHAPTER XXIX THE JACKSON-HARMSWORTH EXPEDITION199
• CHAPTER XXX NANSEN AND THE “FRAM”206
• CHAPTER XXXI CONWAY AND ANDRÉE213
• CHAPTER XXXII THE LATER VOYAGES OF SVERDRUP AND PEARY218
• CHAPTER XXXIII OTHER RECENT EXPEDITIONS—ABRUZZI, WELLMANN AND TOLL223
• Transcriber’s Notes250
• THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE252

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