True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World

DR KANE'S MEN HAULING THEIR BOAT OVER ROUGH ICE. From a sketch by Dr. Kane.
BY MAJOR-GENERAL A. W. GREELY, U. S. ARMY
GOLD-MEDALLIST ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY AND OF SOCIÉTÉ DE GÉOGRAPHIE
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Copyright, 1912, by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Printed in the United States of America
From the dawn of history great deeds and heroic actions have ever fed the flame of noble thought. Horace tells us that
By Homer taught the modern poet sings In epic strains of heroes, wars and kings.
The peace-aspiring twentieth century tends toward phases of heroism apart from either wars or kings, and so the heroic strains of the True Tales appear in the unwarlike environment of uncommercial explorations.
One object of this volume is to recall in part the geographic evolution of North America and of its adjacent isles. The heroic-loving American youth is not always familiar with the deeds of daring, the devotion to duty, and the self-abnegation which have so often illumined the stirring annals of exploration in arctic America.