Roald Amundsen’s Sled Dogs, The Sledge Dogs Who Helped Discover the South Pole by Tahan, Mary R. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Front Matter 1. Introduction: Dogs, the Arctic, and Amundsen’s Clandestine Switch to the Antarctic Part I. The Strategic Plan, The Secret Ingredient

Part II. From Greenland to Norway

Part III. Journey Across the Seas to Antarctica

8. The Voyage South: Dogs First, Dogs All the Time 9. The Wooing of Lasse and the Caring for the Dogs 10. The Females and the Mother Ship: Woman Shall Not Come on Board 11. Maren and Her Sons in Madeira: Enduring the Heat 12. The Births and Deaths of October 13. The Lady and the Sea 14. Christmas Among the Ice Floes 15. The Arrival in Antarctica

Part IV. Depot-Laying, Winter’s Work, and a False Start

16. The First Sled Ride 17. Great Surprise! It’s the Terra Nova! 18. The First Depot Run: Flying on a High 19. The Second Depot Run: Disaster for the Dogs 20. The Third Depot Run: Third Time Is Not the Charm 21. Born and Bred in Antarctica 22. The Divine Trio: Fix, Lasse, and Snuppesen 23. Hjalmar Johansen’s Charges: Camilla, Knegten, Uroa, and Rotta 24. Don Pedro Christophersen and Balmy Buenos Aires 25. A Midwinter Night’s Dream 26. Now Is the August of Our Winter’s Content 27. The Premature Start 28. The Decisive Ejection and the Change of Plan

Part V. Sled Trek to the South Pole and Back

29. Snow Trek 30. The Eastern Party’s Expedition to King Edward VII Land 31. The Push to the Plateau: Kjøring Across the Ice Waves 32. Pulling for the “Chief”: The Climbing of the Mountain Peaks 33. Butcher’s Shop: “The Final Reward” 34. A Devil of a Climb: The Devil’s Glacier 35. The Dogs at the South Pole 36. The Return Trek from the South Pole 37. The Search for the Devil’s Depot 38. The Eastern Party, the Fram, and an Australian in Antarctica 39. The South Pole Party Returns Home

Part VI. The Return from Antarctica

40. Their Final Destinations: The South Pole Dogs and Sled Dogs 41. Impressions that Dog Us

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