The Project Gutenberg E-text of Adventurers of the Far North

About this eBook

Author

Leacock, Stephen, 1869-1944

Title

Adventurers of the Far North: A Chronicle of the Frozen Seas

Credits

Produced by Al Haines

Language

English

LoC Class

G: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation

Subject

Northwest, Canadian -- Description and travel

Category

Text

eBook-No.

30039

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30039

Release Date

September 20, 2009

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.The Arctic Council, discussing a plan of search for Sir John Franklin. From the National Portrait Gallery. — ADVENTURERS OF THE FAR NORTH
2. 2.A Chronicle of the Frozen Seas — BY
3. 3.STEPHEN LEACOCK — TORONTO GLASGOW, BROOK & COMPANY 1914
4. 4.CONTENTS
5. 5.ILLUSTRATIONS — Routes of Explorers in the Far North — CHAPTER I — THE GREAT ELIZABETHAN NAVIGATORS — CHAPTER II — HEARNE'S OVERLAND JOURNEY TO THE NORTHERN OCEAN — Samuel Hearne. From an engraving in the Dominion Archives. — Fort Churchill or Prince of Wales. Drawn by Samuel Hearne. — CHAPTER III — MACKENZIE DESCENDS THE GREAT RIVER OF THE NORTH — Sir Alexander Mackenzie. From the painting by Sir T. Lawrence. — CHAPTER IV — THE MEMORABLE EXPLOITS OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN — CHAPTER V — THE TRAGEDY OF FRANKLIN'S FATE — Sir John Franklin. From the National Portrait Gallery. — CHAPTER VI — EPILOGUE. THE CONQUEST OF THE POLE — BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE — INDEX
6. 6.THE CHRONICLES OF CANADA — THIRTY-TWO VOLUMES ILLUSTRATED — Edited by GEORGE M. WRONG and H. H. LANGTON
7. 7.THE CHRONICLES OF CANADA — PART I THE FIRST EUROPEAN VISITORS — PART II THE RISE OF NEW FRANCE — PART III THE ENGLISH INVASION — PART IV THE BEGINNINGS OF BRITISH CANADA — PART V THE RED MAN IN CANADA — PART VI PIONEERS OF THE NORTH AND WEST — PART VII THE STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL FREEDOM — PART VIII THE GROWTH OF NATIONALITY — PART IX NATIONAL HIGHWAYS

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