When Professor Richard Davis presented this project to the board of the Frederick A. Cook Society at The Ohio State University in 1993, it seemed an appropriate way to deliver the message of the work and achievements of a largely unrecognized group of explorers and travellers who helped fill in the blank spaces of the vast unchartered map of North America to the magical 90 degrees North where all [...] They were to follow his trail, and like him, strive for a genuine human and scientific under- standing of the peoples of the north." Cook's My Attainment of the Pole was the first by an explorer which was dedicated to the Arctic's aboriginal pathfinders, the spirit of which continues in this volume: To the Indian who invented pemmican and snowshoes; To the Eskimo who gave the art of sled traveling [...] The North has inspired the thing of the way this "Idea of North"—to borrow Glenn music of Glenn Gould and Richard Wagner, the paintings of Gould's title—has been created, while simultaneously Lawren Harris and the photographs of Fred Bruemmer, the enhancing the reader's familiarity with the North as Place. [...] Sabine, besides maintaining a program of scientific Advancement of Science in urging the government to observation, was also the editor and censor of the expedi- sponsor an antarctic expedition in search of the South tion's newspaper, the North Georgia Gazette and Winter Magnetic Pole, and further lobbying contributed to the Chronicle, which was published on board the Hecla and appointment of Jame [...] Rejoined the Navy in 1803, serv- tered in the Arctic, although whalers ing at the blockade of Brest and in the had sometimes spent the winter American War of 1812.
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Table of Contents
- Table of Contents 6
- Foreword 10
- Acknowledgements 11
- Introduction 12
- UNIT 1 18
- John Ross 19
- Edward Sabine 21
- William Edward Parry 24
- James Clark Ross 26
- Joseph-Elzéar Bernier 28
- Vilhjalmur Stefansson 31
- Henry Larsen 34
- UNIT 2 38
- Jens Munk 39
- Thomas James 42
- Christopher Middleton 44
- Moses Norton 47
- George Weetaltuk 49
- Robert Flaherty 51
- UNIT 3 56
- Jane Franklin 57
- Francis Crozier 60
- Edward Belcher 62
- Charles Francis Hall 64
- Ebierbing 67
- Frederick Schwatka 70
- UNIT 4 74
- Henry Kellett 75
- Robert J.L. McClure 78
- Johann August Miertsching 80
- Francis Leopold McClintock 82
- Samuel Gurney Cresswell 86
- William Robert Hobson 89
- UNIT 5 94
- John Richardson 95
- Thomas Simpson 97
- Charles Codrington Forsyth 99
- John Rae 102
- Diamond Jenness 105
- Ikey Angotisiak Bolt 107
- UNIT 6 110
- Thanadelther 111
- Matonabbee 114
- Samuel Hearne 117
- George Back 120
- Richard King 123
- Joseph Burr Tyrrell 127
- Ernest Thompson Seton 130
- John Hornby 132
- UNIT 7 136
- David Thompson 137
- Alexander Kennedy Isbister 140
- R.M. Ballantyne 142
- Ernest C. Oberholtzer 145
- Prentice G. Downes 149
- UNIT 8 154
- John Franklin 155
- Akaitcho 158
- Pierre St. Germain 161
- Robert Hood 164
- James Anderson 166
- Emile Petitot 168
- Charles Jesse Jones 170
- Guy Blanchet 172
- UNIT 9 176
- Alexander Mackenzie 177
- George Simpson 179
- Warburton Pike 181
- George Mellis Douglas 184
- Charles Camsell 187
- Albert Faille 189
- Frank Conibear 191
- UNIT 10 196
- John Bell 197
- Robert Campbell 200
- James Green Stewart 202
- F.J. Fitzgerald 205
- W.J.D. Dempster 207
- Catharine McClellan 210
- UNIT 11 214
- Vitus Bering 215
- Frederick William Beechey 218
- W.J.S. Pullen 221
- UNIT 12 224
- William Penny 225
- Eenoolooapik 228
- George Strong Nares 230
- Otto Sverdrup 232
- Per Schei 235
- A.H. Joy 238
- H.W. Stallworthy 241
- UNIT 13 246
- Elisha Kent Kane 247
- A.W. Greely 249
- Robert Edwin Peary 252
- Frederick A. Cook 255
- Matthew Henson 258
- Donald B. MacMillan 261
- Robert Bartlett 264
- UNIT 14 268
- Merqusâq 269
- Franz Boas 272
- George Comer 275
- William Duval 278
- Henry Toke Munn 280
- Hector Pitchforth 282
- Lazaroosie Kyak 284
- UNIT 15 288
- John McLean 289
- William Brooks Cabot 291
- A.P. Low 295
- Leonidas Hubbard, Jr 298
- Mina Benson Hubbard 301
- George Elson 304
- UNIT 16 310
- Martin Frobisher 311
- John Davis 313
- William Scoresby, Sr. 316
- William Scoresby, Jr. 318
- Edward Augustus Inglefield 321
- Index 324
- A 324
- B 325
- C 326
- D 327
- E 328
- F 329
- G 329
- H 330
- I 331
- J 331
- K 331
- L 332
- M 333
- N 334
- O 335
- P 335
- Q 336
- R 336
- S 337
- T 338
- U 339
- V 339
- W 339
- X 340
- Y 340
- Z 340