# Arctic exploration

Author: Hoare, J. Douglas

Genre: Category: Adventure

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70329

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Arctic+exploration+Hoare&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The story of the first few centuries of Arctic exploration can, of course, never be written. The early Norsemen, to whom must go the credit for most of the first discoveries, were a piratical race, and their many voyages were conducted, for the most part, in a strictly business-like spirit. Occasionally one of them would happen on a new country by accident, just as Naddod the Viking happened upon Iceland in 861 by being driven there by a gale while on his way to the Faroe Islands. Occasionally a curious adventurer would follow in the footsteps of one of these early discoverers, but no serious attempt was made to widen the field of knowledge thus opened up, unless the Norsemen saw their wa...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/arctic-exploration-70329/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/arctic-exploration-70329/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/arctic-exploration-70329/chapters/33/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/arctic-exploration-70329/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/arctic-exploration-70329/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/arctic-exploration-70329/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/arctic-exploration-70329/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/arctic-exploration-70329/chapters/28/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/arctic-exploration-70329/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/arctic-exploration-70329/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/arctic-exploration-70329/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/arctic-exploration-70329/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/arctic-exploration-70329/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/arctic-exploration-70329/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/arctic-exploration-70329/chapters/30/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/arctic-exploration-70329/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/arctic-exploration-70329/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/arctic-exploration-70329/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/arctic-exploration-70329/chapters/29/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/arctic-exploration-70329/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/arctic-exploration-70329/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/arctic-exploration-70329/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/arctic-exploration-70329/chapters/32/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/arctic-exploration-70329/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/arctic-exploration-70329/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/arctic-exploration-70329/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/arctic-exploration-70329/chapters/26/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/arctic-exploration-70329/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/arctic-exploration-70329/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/arctic-exploration-70329/chapters/31/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/arctic-exploration-70329/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/arctic-exploration-70329/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/arctic-exploration-70329/chapters/27/index.md)