Sonntag's Fatal Sledge Journey

True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World

by Adolphus W. GREELY (1844 - 1935)

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

Listen next episodes of True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World:
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 , The Fidelity of Eskimo Brönlund , The Heroic Devotion of Lady Jane Franklin , The Inuit Survivors of the Stone Age , The Marvellous Ice-Drift of Captain Tyson , The Missionary's Arctic Trail , The Saving of Petersen , The Wifely Heroism of Mertuk, the Daughter of Shung-Hu