[The Arctic Grail 01] • The Arctic Grail by Berton, Pierre -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Other Books by This Author Title Page Copyright Contents Illustrations List of Maps Chronology Map Epigraph One

1. John Barrow’s obsession 2. The Croker Mountains 3. Winter Harbour 4. Fame, fortune, and frustration 5. Innuee and kabloonas

Two

1. Franklin’s folly 2. Miss Porden’s core of steel 3. Fury Beach 4. The silken flag 5. Treadmill to the Pole

Three

1. Endless winter 2. The indomitable Jane 3. Enter the Honourable Company 4. Prison warden 5. A matter of honour 6. The Arctic puzzle

Four

1. The lost ships 2. Arctic fever 3. The American presence 4. The crusaders 5. The dutiful warmth of a son

Five

1. Grasping at straws 2. “A French officer will never hang back” 3. The ambitions of Robert McClure 4. The Passage at last 5. Mercy Bay

Six

1. The spirit rappers 2. Searching for the searchers 3. The blue devils 4. Ships abandoned 5. Relics of the lost

Seven

1. The defectors 2. Kalutunah 3. Retreat 4. The high cost of dawdling 5. The polar idol

Eight

1. A “weak and helpless woman” 2. The cruise of the Fox 3. The document at Victory Point 4. Failed heroes 5. The ultimate accolade

Nine

1. The obsession of Charles Francis Hall 2. The Open Polar Sea 3. Frobisher Bay 4. Execution 5. Death by arsenic 6. George Tyson’s remarkable drift

Ten

1. “The navy needs some action” 2. The seeds of scurvy 3. The scapegoat

Eleven

1. The polar virus 2. Abandoned 3. No turning back 4. Starvation winter 5. The eleventh hour

Twelve

1. Nansen’s drift 2. Andrée’s folly 3. Peary’s obsession 4. Amundsen’s triumph

Thirteen

1. Nearest the Pole 2. “Mine at last!” 3. Dr. Cook’s strange Odyssey 4. Cook versus Peary 5. The end of the quest

Afterword: The chart of immortality Author’s Note Bibliography