True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World

True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World

Adolphus Greely, american Polar explorer, a United States Army officer (1844-1935)


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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- PREFACE

-03- THE LOYALTY OF PHILIP STAFFE TO HENRY HUDSON

-04- FRANKLIN'S CROSSING OF THE BARREN GROUNDS

-05- THE RETREAT OF ROSS FROM THE VICTORY

-06- THE DISCOVERY OF THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE

-07- THE TIMELY SLEDGE JOURNEY OF BEDFORD PIM

-08- KANE'S RESCUE OF HIS FREEZING SHIPMATES

-09- HOW WOON WON PROMOTION

-10- THE ANGEKOK KALUTUNAH AND THE STARVING WHITES

-11- DR RAE AND THE FRANKLIN MYSTERY

-12- SONNTAG'S FATAL SLEDGE JOURNEY

-13- THE HEROIC DEVOTION OF LADY JANE FRANKLIN

-14- THE SAVING OF PETERSEN

-15- LIFE ON AN EAST GREENLAND ICE PACK

-16- PARR'S LONELY MARCH FROM THE GREAT FROZEN SEA

-17- RELIEF OF AMERICAN WHALERS AT POINT BARROW

-18- THE MISSIONARY'S ARCTIC TRAIL

-19- SCHWATKA'S SUMMER SEARCH

-20- THE INUIT SURVIVORS OF THE STONE AGE

-21- THE FIDELITY OF ESKIMO BRÖNLUND

-22- THE WIFELY HEROISM OF MERTUK THE DAUGHTER OF SHUNG HU

-23- FOOTNOTES