| CHAP. | | PAGE |
| I. | Early Voyages | [1] |
| II. | From Hudson to Phipps and Nelson | [17] |
| III. | The Voyage of Buchan and Franklin | [30] |
| IV. | Ross’s Failures and Parry’s Successes | [35] |
| V. | Franklin’s First Overland Journey | [45] |
| VI. | Parry’s Last North-West Voyages | [64] |
| VII. | Franklin’s Second Land Journey | [70] |
| VIII. | Parry’s North-Polar Voyage | [79] |
| IX. | Ross’s Adventures in the “Victory” | [86] |
| X. | Back’s Two Journeys | [95] |
| XI. | The Discoveries of Dease and Simpson | [102] |
| XII. | Franklin’s Last Voyage | [116] |
| XIII. | Rae and the Boothia Peninsula | [122] |
| XIV. | The Franklin Search begun | [129] |
| XV. | The Voyages of Collinson and M’Clure | [137] |
| XVI. | Belcher and the Franklin Search | [150] |
| XVII. | Rae’s Journeys of 1851-53 | [159] |
| XVIII. | M’Clintock and the “Fox” | [168] |
| XIX. | The Voyages of Kane and Hayes | [182] |
| XX. | Hall and the “Polaris” | [192] |
| XXI. | The “Germania” and the “Hansa” | [200] |
| XXII. | The Voyage of the “Tegetthoff” | [207] |
| XXIII. | Nares and Smith Sound | [215] |
| XXIV. | The Greely Tragedy | [223] |
| XXV. | Nordenskiöld and his Work | [235] |
| XXVI. | The Story of the “Jeannette” | [244] |
| XXVII. | Leigh Smith and the “Eira” | [252] |
| XXVIII. | Greenland and the Earlier Journeys of Nansen and Peary | [257] |
| XXIX. | The Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition | [270] |
| XXX. | Nansen and the “Fram” | [278] |
| XXXI. | Conway and Andrée | [287] |
| XXXII. | The Later Voyages of Sverdrup and Peary | [293] |
| XXXIII. | Other Recent Expeditions—Abruzzi, Wellmann, and Toll | [301] |
| Index | [309] |