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The Great White North: The story of polar exploration from the earliest times to the discovery of the pole — John Shaqi

The Great White North: The story of polar exploration from the earliest times to the discovery of the poleWright, Helen S. (Helen Saunders)

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The Great White North: The story of polar exploration from the earliest times to the discovery of the pole

Name: The Great White North: The story of polar exploration from the earliest times to the discovery of the pole
Author: Wright, Helen S. (Helen Saunders)

Wright, Helen S. (Helen Saunders)

Arctic regions; North Pole

Baron A. E. von Nordenskjöld.—First voyage, 1858.—Accompanies
    succeeding Swedish expeditions.—Spitzbergen.—Voyage of
    _Sofia_.—1868.—Nordenskjöld’s journey to Greenland.—Voyage
    of the _Polhem_.—Attempt to reach the Pole by reindeer
    sledge.—Unexpected discouragements and disasters.—Voyage of the
    _Proven_.—1875.—The Kara Sea.—Journey repeated the following
    year.—In the _Ymer_.—Voyage of the _Vega_                          298

                              CHAPTER XVII

    British expedition of 1875.—The _Alert_ and
    _Discovery_.—Captain George S. Nares, F. R. S., Albert
    H. Markham, F. R. G. S.—Two voyages of the _Pandora_,
    1875-1876.—Schwatka’s search for the Franklin records, 1878-1879   310

                              CHAPTER XVIII

    The _Jeannette_ expedition, 1879-1881.—In command of Captain
    George W. De Long.—Leaves San Francisco.—Touches at Ounalaska,
    August 2.—Reaches Lawrence Bay, East Siberia, August 15.—Last
    seen by whale bark _Sea Breeze_ near Herald Island, September
    2.—The _Jeannette_ beset in ice-pack September 6, never again
    released.—Daily routine of officers and crew.—Ship springs
    a leak.—A frozen summer.—Sight of new land.—A second winter
    in the pack.—The _Jeannette_ crushed.—Abandonment.—The
    retreat.—The fate of the three boats.—Death of De Long’s
    party.—Melville’s search                                           345

                               CHAPTER XIX

    International circumpolar stations.—Failure of Dutch
    expedition.—Greely expedition reaches Lady Franklin
    Bay.—Life at Fort Conger.—Sledge journey of Brainard and
    Lockwood.—Farthest north.—Greely’s journey to interior of
    Grinnell Land.—Lake Hazen.—Failure of relief ship _Neptune_ to
    reach Conger in 1882.—Official plans for Greely’s relief in
    1883.—_Proteus_ crushed in ice.—Garlington’s retreat.—Greely’s
    abandonment of Fort Conger.—Greely reaches Cape Sabine.—The
    beginning of a hard winter.—Death of members of the party from
    starvation and cold.—Schley’s brilliant rescue of the remnant
    of the Lady Franklin Bay expedition in 1884                        369

                               CHAPTER XX

    Nansen.—The man.—First Arctic experience.—Plans the crossing
    of Greenland.—Carries out his great undertaking.—Voyage on the
    _Fram_.—Drifting with the current.—Life aboard.—Nansen and
    Johannesen start for the Pole.—Difficulties of travel.—The
    “Farthest North!”—The retreat.—A winter on the Franz Josef
    Land.—Attempt to reach Spitzbergen by kayak.—The meeting at
    Cape Flora with Frederick Jackson.—Home in the _Windward_          401

                               CHAPTER XXI

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