Farthest North; or the Life and Explorations of Lieutenant James Booth Lockwood, of the Greely Arctic Expedition

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Author

Lanman, Charles, 1819-1895

Title

Farthest North The Life and Explorations of Lieutenant James Booth Lockwood, of the Greely Arctic Expedition

Credits

Produced by Marcia Brooks, Stephen Hutcheson, and the online Distributed Proofreaders Canada team at www.pgdpcanada.net

Language

English

LoC Class

G: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation

Subject

Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881-1884)

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 54019

Release Date

January 18, 2017

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.FARTHEST NORTH;
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.ILLUSTRATIONS. — FARTHEST NORTH.
5. 5.I. EARLY LIFE.
6. 6.II. ARMY-LIFE IN ARIZONA.
7. 7.III. ARMY-LIFE IN NEBRASKA.
8. 8.IV. ARMY-LIFE IN KANSAS.
9. 9.V. ARMY-LIFE IN INDIAN TERRITORY AND COLORADO.
10. 10.VI. PREPARING FOR THE ARCTIC REGIONS.
11. 11.VII. FROM NEWFOUNDLAND TO LADY FRANKLIN BAY.
12. 12.VIII. HOUSE-BUILDING AND LOCAL EXPLORATIONS.
13. 13.IX. PRELIMINARY SLEDGE EXPEDITIONS AND LIFE AT THE STATION.
14. 14.X. “THE ARCTIC MOON.”
15. 15.XI. EXPEDITION TO LOCKWOOD ISLAND.
16. 16.XII FROM LOCKWOOD ISLAND TO LADY FRANKLIN BAY.
17. 17.XIII. WAITING AND WATCHING.
18. 18.XIV. RESUMING A DESPERATE STRUGGLE.
19. 19.XV. ACROSS GRINNELL LAND.
20. 20.XVI. PREPARING FOR HOME. — TABULATED STATEMENT OF THE DISTANCE TRAVELED TO LOCKWOOD ISLAND.
21. 21.XVII. HOMEWARD BOUND.
22. 22.XVIII. THE FINAL CATASTROPHE.
23. 23.XIX. THE WOEFUL RETURN.
24. 24.Footnotes
25. 25.Transcriber’s Notes

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