Under Sail in the Frozen North

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ISBN: 9781589762329 | 1589762320
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 11/1/2003

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Worsley was a naval officer and polar explorer, best known as the captain of Shackleton's Endurance. In this book, Worsley tells of his trip as co-leader of the 1926 British Artic Expedition.

Chapter I: Fitting Out

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Grettir Algarsson - Our meeting - The "Beltai" - The inception of the expedition - Offer of joint leadership - The "Lady of Avenel" - Fitting her out - The airship fails us - Goodfriends - Financial struggles - The aims and objects of the expedition - The ship sails

Chapter II: Northward Bound

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Northward - The personnel -All volunteers -A cheery crew - Shaking into place - Scientists learning seamanship - Seaweed - The northern drift - The Arctic Ocean - Making Spitsbergen - Arrival at Green Harbour - Spitsbergen history - Coal-mines - Outposts of civilisation - The obliging eider - A glacial honeymoon - An avalanche of dogs - Friendly Hollanders and Norwegians

Chapter III North of Spitsbergen

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Through Foul Sound - King's Bay - The baptism of ice - The most northern railway on earth -Amundsen's base and cameo - Northward again - Great glaciers - Shooting a seal - Liefde Bay - Pink mountains - Survey of a new harbour - Masthead navigation - The beacon - Arctic terns - A goose regiment-Shooting reindeer An all-night tramp - The Ancient Mariner

Chapter IV: North-East Land

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We steer N.E. - Driven back by a gale - Migration of reindeer - Hinlopen Strait - The Alkrange - Dangers of Polar navigation - Erratic boulders - The ice-cap - Correcting the chart - Sailing overland - Great Island - Enter the pack-ice - The way north barred - Description of pack

Chapter V: North-East Land

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Chapter VI: Back to Sails

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Ramming the ice - The broken blade - The engineers refuse "the dole " - Soundings - Marr dredges weird creatures from the depths - We discover a submarine prairie - Extension of the Continental Shelf - Ursus Maritimes, Esq. - Bruin on the berg-Algarsson shoots him - Ivorygulls - Harte makes a pier-head jump - Victoria Island - The Polar drift - We meet the "Quest" - A generous offer - A deep-laden sealer - Walrus sloops

Chapter VII: Beset in the Ice

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Ice navigation - Mirage and refraction - Ships that were nipped - The dogs - Fresh water from sea-ice - The queen bee -Beset for eighteen days - The ice-dock-Repairing the rudder - The swimming champion - Polar bridge - The ship leaks - Swooping robbers - Fresh bear-meat - Totally disabled - Sails only - The baby seal - Fighting out - A narrow passage - We burst free - N.E. to Franz Josef Land - Five thousand seals

Chapter VIII: Franz Josef Group

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The archipelago - Narrow escape of the vessel - Cape Flora - We enter the inland sea - We listen to a B.B. C. concert - Driven back- Thorn's Island - The elusive jelly-fish - Scots in pursuit - Driven back again - We charge the roaring pack in a heavy gale - Fog and bergs - Backing and filling - A smart crew - We anchor under Cape Barents

Chapter IX: Barents and the Inland Sea

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In danger from drifting bergs - The boat in difficulties - The landing - White whales - Pink snow - Death of the prowler - The queen bee's burial - Thom on the ice-cap - A tobogganing bear - Escape from the ice-wall- The boat dragged away by a growler - Dangers of fog navigation - We find the boat - The third attempt north - We cross the inland sea - We reach Cape Murray - The impenetrable polar pack - An ice-clad land

Chapter X: Fighting the Pack

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Forced to return - Beating to southward through ice and dense fog - Tacking by ear - Securing the rudder - A bear swims to us - disappears in the fog - Walrus - Midnight on the inland sea - The sun sets - We clear the archipelago - In deadly peril - Beneath the iceberg's brow - Saved by a wave - A rich haul - We quarry two tons of water - Algarsson lassoes a cub - Beset again - Sunset and dawn together - Magnetic variation - Numerous bears near the open sea - A morning visitor - A bear-skin for the children - Escape from the pack

Chapter XI: North of North-East Land

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Scientists' sea-terms - A good hand - Wyches Islands - Gilles Island - Sailing north in search of Gillis Land - Observing magnetic variation on the floe - Error in existing charts - We reach 80° 48' N. - Change of name - Pushed south by advancing pack - Elusive shadows - Land or mirage? - Baffling winds - Drifting all night into the roaring pack - Wearing in the fog - We pass North Cape

Chapter XII: Our Farthest North

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A violent gale - "All hands on deck" - Lashing the deckhouse - We reach farthest north during a lull in the gale - Number One's narrow escape - We run behind North Cape - Exploring a channel in the dark - We cross a submarine precipice - In the darkness we see the ocean bed - Phosphorescent fishes - Landing on Chermside - We find a post all carved and worn -Stone language - Swarms of medusæ - The Gulf Stream - The rising land - Beating through a narrow channel in the dark - A fair wind - Off the Norways - Warm water - Flotsam from Europe and America - The broken gaff - The ship on fire - Head gales

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Chapter XIII: Hell's Kitchen

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A fair gale - Foul Sound in thick weather - Passage barred - Crossing the bar in a snowstorm - One inch of water under the keel - More head gales - A wearying time - Breakers ahead - on the lee bow - all around - About ship in Hell's Kitchen - Tacking with the anchor - Bumping over a reef- Anchored in Hell's Kitchen - The wind lulls at dawn - we lay out a kedge anchor - We heave up, and kedge out under sail -- A devious course through reefs - We escape - A friend in need - We arrive at Barentsburg

Chapter XIV: An Ocean Tow 161

Sad news for Burt - We cable change of name of expedition - Beaching the brigantine - Patching up the rudder - The "Nespico" - Our friends the Hollanders - We wash - we even bath - The aurora Borealis - Generous offer of a tow - S.S. "Ameland" - 1,200 feet of steel wire - 250 feet of chain cable - 600 miles at 9 knots - a record tow - A round Arctic turn

A: A SHORT ZOOLOGICAL REPORT 166

B: GEOLOGICAL NOTES 202

C: THE HYDROGRAPHIC WORK 211

D: THE CREW 216

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Under Sail in the Frozen North

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