The Frozen North offers short sketches of the first men who bravely took great risks to explore the unknown polar regions and unlock the mysteries held there. - Summary by Laura Victoria
Chapters
1 Preface 2 min 2 Introduction 10 min 3 Sir John Franklin 1818 6 min 4 Franklin's First Land Journey 1819-1821 11 min 5 Franklin's Second Land Journey 1825-1827 8 min 6 The Voyage of the Erebus and the Terror 1845 11 min 7 Elisha Kent Kane 1853 5 min 8 Winter in Rensselaer Harbor 1853-1854 6 min 9 The Eskimoes 1854 6 min 10 Hunting in the Icy North 8 min 11 Home Again 1855 11 min 12 Nordenskjold and the Northeast Passage 1878-1879 19 min 13 Voyage of the Jeannette 1879-1881 16 min 14 Greely in Grinnell Land 1881-1883 8 min 15 Farthest North of the Greely Party 1882 12 min 16 Lieutenant Schwatka in Alaska 1883 14 min 17 Nansen Crosses Greenland 1888 25 min 18 The Voyage of the Fram 1893-1896 17 min 19 Peary Crosses Greenland 1891-1897 27 min 20 Andrees Balloon Expedition to the Pole 1897 8 min 21 Expedition of 1902 6 min 22 The Discovery of the North Pole by Robert E. Peary 18 min
