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The Lands of Silence

by Clements R. Markham

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Epigraph
  3. 3Part I
  4. 4Chapter II — Ice and Icebergs
  5. 5Chapter III — Tribes Around the Pole
  6. 6Chapter IV — Ultima Thule
  7. 7Chapter V — First Crossing of the Threshold
  8. 8Chapter VI — The Norsemen in Greenland
  9. 9Chapter VII — Nicholas of Lynn. Zeno. Medieval Nautical Instruments
  10. 10Chapter VIII — First English Voyages to the North-East. Willoughby.…
  11. 11Chapter IX — Barentsz. Linschoten. De Veer
  12. 12Chapter X — Sir Martin Frobisher
  13. 13Chapter XI — John Davis
  14. 14Chapter XII — The Merchant Adventurers and Richard Hakluyt
  15. 15Chapter XIII — Greenland Voyage of Hall and Baffin
  16. 16Chapter XIV — Early Spitsbergen Voyages
  17. 17Chapter XV — Early Voyages to Hudson’s Bay — Knight — Hudson — Butt…
  18. 18Chapter XVI — William Baffin
  19. 19Chapter XVII — Jens Eriksen Munk. Foxe and James. Wood
  20. 20Chapter XVIII — Hans Egede and Danish Greenland
  21. 21Chapter XIX — The Hudson’s Bay Company. Hearne and Mackenzie, Cook…
  22. 22Chapter XX — Russian Arctic Discoveries
  23. 23Chapter XXI — The British Whale Fishery and the Scoresbys
  24. 24Chapter XXII — Buchan and Ross
  25. 25Chapter XXIII — Parry and His School
  26. 26Chapter XXIV — Discovery of the North Coast of America. Franklin —…
  27. 27Chapter XXV — John Ross, James Ross, and the North Magnetic Pole
  28. 28Chapter XXVI — The Franklin Expedition
  29. 29Chapter XXVII — The Search for Franklin. I.
  30. 30Chapter XXVIII — The Search for Franklin. II
  31. 31Chapter XXIX — Discovery of the Fate of Franklin
  32. 32Chapter XXX — The East Coast of Greenland. Scoresby — Clavering — G…
  33. 33Chapter XXXI — Spitsbergen Expeditions Before 1872
  34. 34Chapter XXXII — Franz Josef Land and Its Explorers
  35. 35Chapter XXXIII — The Route by Smith Sound — Kane — Hayes — Hall — N…
  36. 36Chapter XXXIV — Sir Allen Young and the Pandora — Amundsen and the…
  37. 37Chapter XXXV — Weyprecht’s Plan for Synchronous Observations — The…
  38. 38Chapter XXXVI — The North East Passage — Nordenskiöld — Wiggins — D…
  39. 39Chapter XXXVII — Greenland and Its Inland Ice — Nordenskiöld, Nanse…
  40. 40Chapter XXXVIII — The Trans-Polar Drift — Nansen and the Voyage of…
  41. 41Chapter XXXIX — The Parry Archipelago — Sverdrup
  42. 42Chapter XL — Attempts to Reach the North Pole — Cagni — Cook — Peary
  43. 43Chapter XLI — Koolemans Beynen and the Voyages of the Willem Barent…
  44. 44Chapter XLII — East Coast of Greenland — Danish Expeditions
  45. 45Chapter XLIII — Later Greenland Explorations — Mikkelsen, Rasmussen…
  46. 46Chapter XLIV — Conclusion
  47. 47Part II — The Antarctic Regions
  48. 48Chapter XLVI — Captain Cook — Bellingshausen
  49. 49Chapter XLVII — The South Shetlands. Foster — Weddell
  50. 50Chapter XLVIII — Enderby and His Captains: Biscoe — Kempe — Balleny
  51. 51Chapter XLIX — Dumont D’Urville and Wilkes
  52. 52Chapter L — First Antarctic Voyage of Sir James Ross
  53. 53Chapter LI — Second Antarctic Voyage of Sir James Ross
  54. 54Chapter LII — Third Antarctic Voyage of Sir James Ross
  55. 55Chapter LIII — Antarctic Oceanography
  56. 56Chapter LIV — Revival of Antarctic Exploration
  57. 57Chapter LV — Private Expeditions — Borchgrevink — Gerlache — Norden…
  58. 58Chapter LVI — Preparations for the Societies’ Antarctic Expedition
  59. 59Chapter LVII — The Societies’ Antarctic Expedition First Year
  60. 60Chapter LVIII — The Societies’ Antarctic Expedition The Morning
  61. 61Chapter LIX — The Societies’ Antarctic Expedition Second Year
  62. 62Chapter LX — Shackleton’s Attempt to Reach the Pole
  63. 63Chapter LXI — Amundsen’s Journey to the South Pole
  64. 64Chapter LXII — Mawson’s Expedition
  65. 65Chapter LXIII — Captain Scott’s Last Expedition I.
  66. 66Chapter LXIV — Captain Scott’s Last Expedition The End
  67. 67Chapter LXV — Remaining Antarctic Work
  68. 68Chronology of Polar Voyages and Explorations
  69. 69Brief Bibliography of Polar Voyages and Travels

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