The Frozen North: An Account of Arctic Exploration for Use in Schools

by Edith Horton

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	[Introduction]	1
II.	[Sir John Franklin.] 1818	9
III.	[Franklin’s First Land Journey.] 1819–1821	14
IV.	[Franklin’s Second Land Journey.] 1825–1827	21
V.	[The Erebus and the Terror.] 1845	25
VI.	[Elisha Kent Kane.] 1853	32
VII.	[Winter in Rensselaer Harbor.] 1853–1854	36
VIII.	[The Eskimos.] 1854	40
IX.	[Hunting in the Icy North]	45
X.	[Home Again.] 1855	51
XI.	[Nordenskjöld and the Northeast Passage.] 1878–1879	59
XII.	[Voyage of the Jeannette.] 1879–1881	72
XIII.	[Greely in Grinnell Land.] 1881–1883	81
XIV.	[Farthest North of the Greely Party.] 1882	87
XV.	[Lieutenant Schwatka in Alaska.] 1883	94
XVI.	[Nansen crosses Greenland.] 1888	104
XVII.	[The Voyage of the Fram.] 1893–1896	122
XVIII.	[Peary crosses Greenland.] 1891–1897	133
XIX.	[Andrée’s Balloon Expedition to the Pole.] 1897	149
XX.	[Expeditions of 1902]	154
XXI.	[Discovery of the North Pole by Robert E. Peary.] 1909	158