This 1869 book describes the geography and climate, as well as the survival strategies for life, in extreme polar environments.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface; Part I. The Arctic Regions: 1. The Arctic lands; 2. Arctic land quadrupeds and birds; 3. The Arctic seas; 4. Arctic marine animals; 5. Iceland; 6. History of Iceland; 7. The Icelanders; 8. The Westman Islands; 9. From Drontheim to the North Cape; 10. Spitzbergen, Bear Island, Jan Meyen; 11. Novaya Zemlya; 12. The Lapps; 13. Matthias Alexander Castren; 14. The Samojedes; 15. The Ostjaks; 16. Conquest of Siberia by the Russians; 17. Siberia, fur trade and gold diggings; 18. Middendorff's adventures in Taimurland; 19. The Jakuts; 20. Wrangel; 21. The Tungusi; 22. George William Steller; 23. Kamtschatka; 24. The Tchutchi; 25. Behring Sea, the Russian fur company, the Aleuts; 26. The Esquimaux; 27. The fur trade of the Hudson's Bay territories; 28. The Cree Indians; 29. The Tinne Indians; 30. The Loucheux, or Kutchin Indians; 31. Arctic voyages of discovery from the Cabots to Baffin; 32. Arctic voyages of discovery from Baffin to M'Clintock; 33. Kane and Hayes; 34. Newfoundland; 35. Greenland; Part II. The Antarctic Regions: 36. The Antarctic Ocean; 37. Antarctic voyages of discovery; 38. The Strait of Magellan; 39. Patagonia and the Patagonians; 40. The Fuegians; Index.
