The Polar World / A popular description of man and nature in the Arctic and Antarctic regions of the globe

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PREFACE.

NOTE BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR.

CONTENTS.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

THE POLAR WORLD.

CHAPTER I. THE ARCTIC LANDS.

CHAPTER II. ARCTIC LAND QUADRUPEDS AND BIRDS.

CHAPTER III. THE ARCTIC SEAS.

CHAPTER IV. ARCTIC MARINE ANIMALS

CHAPTER V. ICELAND.

CHAPTER VI. HISTORY OF ICELAND.

CHAPTER VII. THE ICELANDERS.

CHAPTER VIII. THE WESTMAN ISLANDS.

CHAPTER IX. FROM DRONTHEIM TO THE NORTH CAPE.

CHAPTER X. SPITZBERGEN BEAR ISLAND JAN MEYEN.

CHAPTER XI. NOVA ZEMBLA.

CHAPTER XII. THE LAPPS.

CHAPTER XIII. MATTHIAS ALEXANDER CASTREN.

CHAPTER XIV. THE SAMOIEDES.

CHAPTER XV. THE OSTIAKS.

CHAPTER XVI. CONQUEST OF SIBERIA BY THE RUSSIANS THEIR VOYAGES

CHAPTER XVII. SIBERIA FUR-TRADE AND GOLD-DIGGINGS.

CHAPTER XVIII. MIDDENDORFF'S ADVENTURES IN TAIMURLAND.

CHAPTER XIX. THE JAKUTS.

CHAPTER XX. WRANGELL.

CHAPTER XXI. THE TUNGUSI.

CHAPTER XXII. GEORGE WILLIAM STELLER.

CHAPTER XXIII. KAMCHATKA.

CHAPTER XXIV. THE TCHUKTCHI.

CHAPTER XXV. BERING SEA THE RUSSIAN FUR COMPANY THE ALEUTS.

CHAPTER XXVI. ALASKA.

CHAPTER XXVII. THE ESQUIMAUX.

CHAPTER XXVIII. THE FUR-TRADE OF THE HUDSON'S BAY TERRITORIES.

CHAPTER XXIX. THE CREE INDIANS, OR EYTHINYUWUK.

CHAPTER XXX. THE TINNE INDIANS.

CHAPTER XXXI. THE LOUCHEUX, OR KUTCHIN INDIANS.

CHAPTER XXXII. ARCTIC VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY, FROM THE CABOTS TO BAFFIN.

CHAPTER XXXIII. ARCTIC VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY, FROM BAFFIN TO M'CLINTOCK.

CHAPTER XXXIV. KANE AND HAYES.

CHAPTER XXXV. NEWFOUNDLAND.

CHAPTER XXXVI. GREENLAND.

CHAPTER XXXVII. THE ANTARCTIC OCEAN.

CHAPTER XXXVIII. ANTARCTIC VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY.

CHAPTER XXXIX. THE STRAIT OF MAGELLAN.

CHAPTER XL. PATAGONIA AND THE PATAGONIANS.

CHAPTER XLI. THE FUEGIANS.

CHAPTER XLII. CHARLES FRANCIS HALL AND THE INNUITS.

FOOTNOTES

INDEX.

HARPER and BROTHERS'

VALUABLE STANDARD WORKS

Transcriber's Notes

Transcriber’s Note

Transcriber added text to the existing Cover; the result has been placed in the Public Domain.

1. ESQUIMAUX DOG-TEAM.

THE POLAR WORLD:
A POPULAR DESCRIPTION OF
MAN AND NATURE
IN THE
ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC REGIONS OF THE GLOBE.

By Dr. G. HARTWIG,

AUTHOR OF
“THE SEA AND ITS LIVING WONDERS,” “THE HARMONIES OF NATURE,”
AND “THE TROPICAL WORLD.”

WITH ADDITIONAL CHAPTERS AND ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-THREE ILLUSTRATIONS.

NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
FRANKLIN SQUARE. 1869.


Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by

HARPER & BROTHERS,

In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern
District of New York.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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