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The lands of silence

Subtitle: A history of Arctic and Antarctic exploration

Clements R. (Clements Robert) Markham

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THE LANDS OF SILENCE PREFACE MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

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CHRONOLOGY OF POLAR VOYAGES AND EXPLORATIONS BRIEF BIBLIOGRAPHY OF POLAR VOYAGES AND TRAVELS INDEX

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1. THE LANDS OF SILENCE 2. PREFACE 3. MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 4. CHAPTER I THE ARCTIC REGIONS 5. CHAPTER II ICE AND ICEBERGS 6. CHAPTER III TRIBES AROUND THE POLE 7. CHAPTER IV ULTIMA THULE 8. CHAPTER V FIRST CROSSING OF THE THRESHOLD 9. CHAPTER VI THE NORSEMEN IN GREENLAND 10. CHAPTER VII NICHOLAS OF LYNN. ZENO. MEDIEVAL NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS 11. CHAPTER VIII FIRST ENGLISH VOYAGES TO THE NORTH-EAST. WILLOUGHBY. CHANCELLOR. BURROUGH. PET 12. CHAPTER IX BARENTSZ. LINSCHOTEN. DE VEER 13. CHAPTER X SIR MARTIN FROBISHER 14. CHAPTER XI JOHN DAVIS 15. CHAPTER XII THE MERCHANT ADVENTURERS AND RICHARD HAKLUYT 16. CHAPTER XIII GREENLAND VOYAGE OF HALL AND BAFFIN 17. CHAPTER XIV EARLY SPITSBERGEN VOYAGES 18. CHAPTER XV EARLY VOYAGES TO HUDSON’S BAY Knight—Hudson—Button and the North-West Company 19. CHAPTER XVI WILLIAM BAFFIN 20. CHAPTER XVII JENS ERIKSEN MUNK. FOXE AND JAMES. WOOD 21. CHAPTER XVIII HANS EGEDE AND DANISH GREENLAND 22. CHAPTER XIX THE HUDSON’S BAY COMPANY. HEARNE AND MACKENZIE, COOK AND PHIPPS 23. CHAPTER XX RUSSIAN ARCTIC DISCOVERIES 24. CHAPTER XXI THE BRITISH WHALE FISHERY AND THE SCORESBYS 25. CHAPTER XXII BUCHAN AND ROSS 26. CHAPTER XXIII PARRY AND HIS SCHOOL 27. CHAPTER XXIV DISCOVERY OF THE NORTH COAST OF AMERICA. FRANKLIN—RICHARDSON—BACK—DEASE—SIMPSON—RAE 28. CHAPTER XXV JOHN ROSS, JAMES ROSS, AND THE NORTH MAGNETIC POLE 29. CHAPTER XXVI THE FRANKLIN EXPEDITION 30. CHAPTER XXVII THE SEARCH FOR FRANKLIN. I.31. CHAPTER XXVIII THE SEARCH FOR FRANKLIN. II.32. CHAPTER XXIX DISCOVERY OF THE FATE OF FRANKLIN 33. CHAPTER XXX THE EAST COAST OF GREENLAND. SCORESBY—CLAVERING—GRAAH—KOLDEWEY 34. CHAPTER XXXI SPITSBERGEN EXPEDITIONS BEFORE 1872 35. CHAPTER XXXII FRANZ JOSEF LAND AND ITS EXPLORERS 36. CHAPTER XXXIII THE ROUTE BY SMITH SOUND. KANE—HAYES—HALL—NARES—MARKHAM 37. CHAPTER XXXIV SIR ALLEN YOUNG AND THE PANDORA. AMUNDSEN AND THE NORTH WEST PASSAGE.38. CHAPTER XXXV WEYPRECHT’S PLAN FOR SYNCHRONOUS OBSERVATIONS. THE GREELY EXPEDITION 39. CHAPTER XXXVI THE NORTH EAST PASSAGE — NORDENSKIÖLD — WIGGINS — DE LONG 40. CHAPTER XXXVII GREENLAND AND ITS INLAND ICE—NORDENSKIÖLD, NANSEN, PEARY 41. CHAPTER XXXVIII THE TRANS-POLAR DRIFT. NANSEN AND THE VOYAGE OF THE FRAM 42. CHAPTER XXXIX THE PARRY ARCHIPELAGO—SVERDRUP 43. CHAPTER XL ATTEMPTS TO REACH THE NORTH POLE. CAGNI—COOK—PEARY 44. CHAPTER XLI KOOLEMANS BEYNEN AND THE VOYAGES OF THE WILLEM BARENTSZ. SIR MARTIN CONWAY AND SPITSBERGEN. CAPTAIN BERNIER AND CANADIAN ARCTIC LANDS 45. CHAPTER XLII EAST COAST OF GREENLAND—DANISH EXPEDITIONS 46. CHAPTER XLIII LATER GREENLAND EXPLORATIONS—MIKKELSEN, RASMUSSEN—KOCH 47. CHAPTER XLIV CONCLUSION 48. CHAPTER XLV THE GREAT SOUTHERN CONTINENT 49. CHAPTER XLVI CAPTAIN COOK—BELLINGSHAUSEN 50. CHAPTER XLVII THE SOUTH SHETLANDS. FOSTER—WEDDELL 51. CHAPTER XLVIII ENDERBY AND HIS CAPTAINS: BISCOE—KEMPE—BALLENY 52. CHAPTER XLIX DUMONT D’URVILLE AND WILKES 53. CHAPTER L FIRST ANTARCTIC VOYAGE OF SIR JAMES ROSS 54. CHAPTER LI SECOND ANTARCTIC VOYAGE OF SIR JAMES ROSS 55. CHAPTER LII THIRD ANTARCTIC VOYAGE OF SIR JAMES ROSS 56. CHAPTER LIII ANTARCTIC OCEANOGRAPHY 57. CHAPTER LIV REVIVAL OF ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION 58. CHAPTER LV PRIVATE EXPEDITIONS—BORCHGREVINK—GERLACHE—NORDENSKIÖLD—BRUCE—DRYGALSKI—CHARCOT—FILCHNER 59. CHAPTER LVI PREPARATIONS FOR THE SOCIETIES’ ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 60. CHAPTER LVII THE SOCIETIES’ ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION First Year.61. CHAPTER LVIII THE SOCIETIES’ ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION The Morning 62. CHAPTER LIX THE SOCIETIES’ ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION Second Year.63. CHAPTER LX SHACKLETON’S ATTEMPT TO REACH THE POLE 64. CHAPTER LXI AMUNDSEN’S JOURNEY TO THE SOUTH POLE 65. CHAPTER LXII MAWSON’S EXPEDITION 66. CHAPTER LXIII CAPTAIN SCOTT’S LAST EXPEDITION I.67. CHAPTER LXIV CAPTAIN SCOTT’S LAST EXPEDITION The End 68. CHAPTER LXV REMAINING ANTARCTIC WORK 69. CHRONOLOGY OF POLAR VOYAGES AND EXPLORATIONS 70. BRIEF BIBLIOGRAPHY OF POLAR VOYAGES AND TRAVELS 71. INDEX

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