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The Polar World

The object of the following pages is to describe the Polar World in its principal natural features, to point out the influence of its long winter-night and fleeting summer on the development of vegetable and animal existence, and finally to picture man waging the battle of life against the dreadf...

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The Polar World

PREFACE.
NOTE BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR.
CHAPTER I. THE ARCTIC LANDS.
CHAPTER II. ARCTIC LAND QUADRUPEDS AND BIRDS.
CHAPTER III. THE ARCTIC SEAS.
CHAPTER IV. ARCTIC MARINE ANIMALS
CHAPTER V. ICELAND.
CHAPTER VI. HISTORY OF ICELAND.
CHAPTER VII. THE ICELANDERS.
CHAPTER VIII. THE WESTMAN ISLANDS.
CHAPTER IX. FROM DRONTHEIM TO THE NORTH CAPE.
CHAPTER X. SPITZBERGEN—BEAR ISLAND—JAN MEYEN.
CHAPTER XI. NOVA ZEMBLA.
CHAPTER XII. THE LAPPS.
CHAPTER XIII. MATTHIAS ALEXANDER CASTRÉN.
CHAPTER XIV. THE SAMOÏEDES.
CHAPTER XV. THE OSTIAKS.
CHAPTER XVI.
CHAPTER XVII. SIBERIA—FUR-TRADE AND GOLD-DIGGINGS.
CHAPTER XVIII. MIDDENDORFF’S ADVENTURES IN TAIMURLAND.
CHAPTER XIX. THE JAKUTS.
CHAPTER XX. WRANGELL.
CHAPTER XXI. THE TUNGUSI.
CHAPTER XXII. GEORGE WILLIAM STELLER.
CHAPTER XXIII. KAMCHATKA.
CHAPTER XXIV. THE TCHUKTCHI.
CHAPTER XXV. BERING SEA—THE RUSSIAN FUR COMPANY—THE ALEUTS.
CHAPTER XXVI. ALASKA.
CHAPTER XXVII. THE ESQUIMAUX.
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE FUR-TRADE OF THE HUDSON’S BAY TERRITORIES.
CHAPTER XXIX. THE CREE INDIANS, OR EYTHINYUWUK.
CHAPTER XXX. THE TINNÉ INDIANS.
CHAPTER XXXI. THE LOUCHEUX, OR KUTCHIN INDIANS.
CHAPTER XXXII.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
CHAPTER XXXIV. KANE AND HAYES.
CHAPTER XXXV. NEWFOUNDLAND.
CHAPTER XXXVI. GREENLAND.
CHAPTER XXXVII. THE ANTARCTIC OCEAN.
CHAPTER XXXVIII. ANTARCTIC VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY.
CHAPTER XXXIX. THE STRAIT OF MAGELLAN.
CHAPTER XL. PATAGONIA AND THE PATAGONIANS.
CHAPTER XLI. THE FUEGIANS.
CHAPTER XLII. CHARLES FRANCIS HALL AND THE INNUITS.

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