The Polar Passion: The Quest for the North Pole, with Selections from Arctic Journals

303 pp. 12 1/8 x 8 7/8. 80 pages of contemporary drawings & photos. CONTENTS: Foreword; 1. The First Steps North: The Saga of Thorgisl Orrabeinsfostri c. 997 A.D.; 2. The Bay of Disbelief: The Fifth Voyage of Robert Bylot and Wm. Baffin, 1616; 3. A Moth to the Flame: Elisha Kent Kane, Arctic Explorations, 1853-55; 4. Life on an Ice-Floe: Charles Francis Hall, Life Among the Esquimaux, 1865; George Tyson, Wonderful Drift, 1871-73; 5. Lieut. Greely Sees It Through: Adolphus Greely, Three Years of Arctic Service, 1881-84; 6. The Inland Ice: Fridtjof Nansen, The First Crossing of Greenland, 1888; 7. The Passion Quickens: A Survey, 1892-1906; 8. The Top of the World: Frederick Cook, My Attainment of the Pole, 1907-08; Epilogue; Sources and Acknowledgments.