ARCTIC EXPLORATION

SAILING THE ARCTIC SEAS

ARCTIC
EXPLORATION

BY
J. DOUGLAS HOARE
WITH EIGHTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS AND FOUR MAPS

NEW YORK

E. P. DUTTON & CO.
1906

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]

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