- 1Foreword
- 2Introduction
- 3Chapter I — The Early Years: Schoolboy, Cabin-Boy, Seaman, and Lieu…
- 4Chapter II — Off for the Pole — How the Other Explorers Looked — Th…
- 5Chapter III — Finding of Rudolph Franke — Whitney Landed — Trading…
- 6Chapter IV — Preparing for Winter at Cape Sheridan — The Arctic Lib…
- 7Chapter V — Making Peary Sledges — Hunting in the Arctic Night — Th…
- 8Chapter VI — The Peary Plan — A Rain of Rocks — My Friends the Esqu…
- 9Chapter VII — Sledging to Cape Columbia — Hot Soldering in Cold Wea…
- 10Chapter VIII — In Camp at Columbia — Literary Igloos — The Magnific…
- 11Chapter IX — Ready for the Dash to the Pole — The Commander’s Arrival
- 12Chapter X — Forward! March!
- 13Chapter XI — Fighting Up the Polar Sea — Held Up by the “Big Lead”
- 14Chapter XII — Pioneering the Way — Breaking Sledges
- 15Chapter XIII — The Supporting-Parties Begin to Turn Back
- 16Chapter XIV — Bartlett’s Farthest North — His Quiet Good-by
- 17Chapter XV — The Pole!
- 18Chapter XVI — The Fast Trek Back to Land
- 19Chapter XVII — Safe on the Roosevelt — Poor Marvin
- 20Chapter XVIII — After Musk-Oxen — The Doctor’s Scientific Expedition
- 21Chapter XIX — The Roosevelt Starts for Home — Esquimo Villages — Ne…
- 22Chapter XX — Two Narrow Escapes — Arrival at Etah — Harry Whitney —…
- 23Chapter XXI — Etah to New York — Coming of Mail and Reporters — Home!
- 24Appendix I
- 25Appendix II
A Negro Explorer at the North Pole
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