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True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World

by Adolphus W. GREELY (1844 - 1935)

Preface

The Arctic has always been a fascinating area for us. This is true today just as much as in Adolphus Greely's time. In 1912, Greely published this volume of notable Arctic explorations and the explorers. The modern reader can follow a very readable account of the successes and failures of these early explorers comfortably from the armchair, and learn a lot of history in the processes. - Summary by Carolin

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Listen next episodes of True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World:
Dr. Rae and the Franklin Mystery , Franklin's Crossing of the Barren Grounds , How Woon Won Promotion , Kane's Rescue of his Freezing Shipmates , Life on an East Greenland Ice-Pack , Parr's Lonely March from the Great Frozen Sea , Relief of American Whalers at Point Barrow , Schwatka's Summer Search , Sonntag's Fatal Sledge Journey , The Angekok Kalutunah and the Starving Whites , The Discovery of the Northwest Passage , The Fidelity of Eskimo Brönlund , The Heroic Devotion of Lady Jane Franklin , The Inuit Survivors of the Stone Age , The Loyalty of Philip Staffe to Henry Hudson , The Marvellous Ice-Drift of Captain Tyson , The Missionary's Arctic Trail , The Retreat of Ross from the Victory , The Saving of Petersen , The Timely Sledge Journey of Bedford Pim , The Wifely Heroism of Mertuk, the Daughter of Shung-Hu