The Great Frozen Sea

Eyewitness account of the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-6, which attempted to reach the North Pole through Nares Strait.

Preface; Officers and ship's company of H.M.S. Alert; 1. Fitting out; 2. The voyage to Disco; 3. The Greenland settlements; 4. Melville Bay and the North Water; 5. Smith Sound; 6. Struggles with the ice; 7. A walrus hunt. Dog driving; 8. Slow progress through the ice; 9. Kennedy Channel; 10. The crossing of the threshold; 11. Floe-berg Beach; 12. Autumn travelling; 13. Winter quarters; 14. The Royal Arctic Theatre; 15. Winter occupations and amusements; 16. An Arctic Christmas; 17. A Happy New Year; 18. Return of the sun; 19. Details of sledge travelling; 20. The journey of Egerton and Rawson; 21. The routine of sledge travelling; 22. The northern division - travelling in April; 23. The most northern point ever reached by man; 24. Return of the northern division; 25. Return of all the sledge travellers; 26. The return voyage in the ice; 27. Homeward bound; Appendices; Index.