The Frozen North: An Account of Arctic Exploration for Use in Schools

While abundant material has been put before children with the purpose of making them familiar with the history and industrial development of various parts of the known world, ve...

Franklin, though disappointed, was not discouraged. He left two men at Cumberland House to wait for supplies and to bring them on. Then, with Back and Hepburn, he started out wi...

Kane had brought all the dried and salted provisions he could carry, but he knew that his men would need fresh meat in order to keep well in this climate. Besides, they had with...

It was May when Kane and his companions bade farewell to the brig and set out to cover the thirteen hundred miles of ice and water which lay between them and the place where the...

The spring came slowly, and time dragged, though the men were very busy collecting specimens and noting the curious changes in the atmosphere and vegetation. It seemed as if the...

Then Lieutenant Lockwood, Sergeant Brainard, and an Eskimo named Christianson set off to the north to Cape Britannia, taking with them enough food to last twenty-five days. The...

Nansen knew that if his party landed on the east coast and traveled west, they would travel toward safety. If this route were reversed, they would leave comfort and safety behin...

By September 25, 1893, they had reached the New Siberia islands, where the _Fram_ was unable to push her way farther, and was soon frozen in the pack. Now there was nothing to d...

Peary had thought himself on top of the ice cap at Humboldt glacier, but he found that he must climb still higher. As he ascended the weather became colder, and soon snow began...

Beyond the additions to our store of meteorological knowledge, and of botanical and geological facts, there has been a decided addition to the world’s wealth by Arctic explorati...