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The Frozen North

Chapter 1: THE FROZEN NORTH.
By Richard Mayde
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A descriptive travelogue and natural-history survey of polar lands, tracing the transition from boreal forests to tundra, pack ice, and glaciers and contrasting the short summer with the long winter. It catalogues characteristic landscapes and marine hazards, and describes wildlife including reindeer, seals, walrus, and polar bears alongside the hunting, trapping, and navigation techniques used in icy waters. Chapters portray indigenous dwellings, dog sleds, and subsistence strategies, and also turn to volcanic and geothermal scenes, coastal settlements, and practical observations aimed at travelers and naturalists.

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Title: The Frozen North

Author: Richard Mayde

Release date: July 6, 2018 [eBook #57455]

Language: English

Credits: Produced by F E H, MWS and the Online Distributed
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Transcriber’s Note

Author’s name [Richard Mayde] supplied by the transcriber.

In some chapters, there are very few paragraph breaks therefore the illustrations have been positioned as close as possible to their original position in the book.

There are 18 illustrations within the book without accompanying captions, so I have used the individual captions from the Table of Illustrations and have placed them beneath each illustration.

I have retained the title ‘Greenlanders’ in the Table of Illustrations page 67, plus retained the illustration title as quoted in the body of the book as, ‘A Young Man. A Young Woman’.

Page 54: The word ‘they’ has been added to the sentence. ....the danger would be greatest, they made with their dogs....

THE FROZEN NORTH.

A RUSSIAN CARRIAGE.

THE FROZEN NORTH.

ILLUSTRATED.

NEW YORK:

DODD, MEAD, AND COMPANY,

751 BROADWAY.

Copyright, 1876, Dodd, Mead, & Company.

Press of Rand, Avery, and Company, Boston.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

1. A Russian Carriage. Frontispiece
2. An Old Woman of Greenland. PAGE 9
3. The Barren Grounds in Summer. 14
4. Egg Gathering. 21
5. Arctic Birds. 23
6. Bird Catching. 25
7. The Edge of a Pack. 30
8. Lifted by the Ice. 32
9. Among the Icebergs. 33
10. Encounter with Icebergs. 40
11. An Arctic Scene. 40
12. A Greenland Glacier. 43
13. Arctic Navigation. 47
14. Seal-hunting on the Ice. 50
15. Walrus. 53
16. The Walrus. 55
17. Polar Bears. 61
18. An Unpleasant Experience. 62
19. Greenlanders. 66
20. Esquimaux Hut. 70
21. Esquimaux Village. 73
22. Dog Sledge. 76
23. Arctic Dog. 77
24. Danish Settlement in Greenland. 81
25. The River Jokulsa. 85
26. Mt. Hecla. 85
27. Great Geyser. 94
28. Reykjavik. 95
29. Travelling in Iceland. 98
30. Icelandic Interior. 101