Ring of Ice : True Tales of Adventure, Exploration, and Arctic Life

by Edited by Peter Stark

• ISBN13: 9781558215375
• ISBN10: 1558215379
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: The Lyons Press

Summary

A wide-ranging, marvelous compilation of explorations at the top of the world.

Author Biography

Peter Stark has traveled widely in the Arctic on assignment for Outside, Smithsonian, and other magazines

Table of Contents

Introduction	xv
Book I: The Search for the Northwest Passage
Steller Has the Last Laugh	5	(22)
Georg Wilhelm Steller
Samuel Hearne Witnesses a Massacre	27	(12)
Samuel Hearne
Franklin's First Retreat	39	(32)
John Franklin
Dr. John Richardson
The Crew of the Investigator Makes a Narrow Escape	71	(18)
Johann August Miertsching
How Dr. Hayes Learned to Love Seal Blubber	89	(14)
Dr. I. I. Hayes
The Lost Franklin Found	103	(6)
Dr. John Rae
Tyson's Wonderful Drift	109	(46)
Captain George E. Tyson
Book II: The Push to the Pole
DeLong's Last Words	155	(14)
Lieutenant George W. DeLong
The Rescue of Greely	169	(16)
Adolphus Greely
Commander W. S. Schley
Nansen Strolls ``Farthest North''	185	(8)
Fridtjof Nansen
Minik Demands His Father's Body	193	(10)
Minik
San Francisco
Cook Makes a Claim on the Pole and Asks: ``Was It Worth It?''	203	(12)
Dr. Frederick A. Cook
Amundsen Answers, ``Yes.''	215	(6)
Roald Amundsen
The Short, Unhappy Hight of the Italia	221	(20)
Umberto Nobile
Book III: The Search to Understand
The Story of Comock the Eskimo	241	(22)
Comock
Stefansson's Crucial Caribou Hunt	263	(10)
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Rasmussen Meets the Iglulik Eskimos	273	(18)
Knud Rasmussen
Kabloona: A Visit to Father Henry's Ice Cave	291	(20)
Gontran de Poncins
Fur Trade Bachelor	311	(18)
Duncan Pryde
Baby Hari Goes to the Arctic	329	(12)
Marie Herbert
An American City Sprouts on the Hunting Grounds	341	(6)
Jean Malaurie
I Am in the Middle	347	(8)
Minnie Aodla Freeman
A Seal Hunt in the Moon of the Returning Sun	355	(18)
Richard K. Nelson
Book IV: The New Explorers
Some Primitive People's Reflections...	373	(4)
Finn Lynge
Arctic Dreams	377	(8)
Barry Lopez
A Modern-Day Mush to the Pole	385	(16)
Will Steger
Paul Schurke
Tale of a Hunter's Daughter	401	(8)
Rachel A. Qitsualik
Gold Oceans: By Sea Kayak to Greenland	409	(18)
Jon Turk
Sun and Shadow: Waiting for Sunrise in the Greenlandic Night	427	(12)
Gretel Ehrlich
Contributors	439