Contents
List of Plates
PROLOGUE The Last of the Vikings
PART ONE
1 The Boy from the Mountain Kingdom
2 Polar Apprentice
3 An Extraordinary Plan
4 Where Franklin Died
5 An Education at Gjøahavn
PART TWO
6 “I Resolved Upon a Coup”
7 The Napoleon of the Poles
8 Dogs and Skis
9 A Featureless Expanse of Snow
PART THREE
10 A Hero Returns
11 A New Battlefield
12 The Frozen Reaches of Tartary
PART FOUR
13 Grounded Dreams
14 The Arctic Phoenix
15 The Dirigible and the Fascist
16 A Massed Attack on the Polar Regions
PART FIVE
17 No More Poles to Conquer
EPILOGUE The End of the Heroic Age
A Note on Sources
Endnotes
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Photo Credits
Index
About the Author
Copyright