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Charles Lanman. Farthest North: or, the Life and Explorations of Lieutenant James Booth Lockwood, of the Greely Arctic Expedition
eClassics Publications presents. Farthest North, by Charles Lanman
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. – EARLY LIFE
CHAPTER II. – ARMY-LIFE IN ARIZONA
CHAPTER III. – ARMY-LIFE IN NEBRASKA
CHAPTER IV. – ARMY-LIFE IN KANSAS
CHAPTER V. – ARMY-LIFE IN INDIAN TERRITORY AND COLORADO
CHAPTER VI. – PREPARING FOR THE ARCTIC REGIONS
CHAPTER VII. – FROM NEWFOUNDLAND TO LADY FRANKLIN BAY
CHAPTER VIII. – HOUSE-BUILDING AND LOCAL EXPLORATIONS
CHAPTER IX. – PRELIMINARY SLEDGE EXPEDITIONS AND LIFE AT THE STATION
CHAPTER X. – “THE ARCTIC MOON.”
CHAPTER XI. – EXPEDITION TO LOCKWOOD ISLAND
CHAPTER XII. – FROM LOCKWOOD ISLAND TO LADY FRANKLIN BAY
CHAPTER XIII. – WAITING AND WATCHING
CHAPTER XIV. – RESUMING A DESPERATE STRUGGLE
CHAPTER XV. – ACROSS GRINNELL LAND
CHAPTER XVI. – PREPARING FOR HOME
CHAPTER XVII. – HOMEWARD BOUND
CHAPTER XVIII. – THE FINAL CATASTROPHE
CHAPTER XIX. – THE WOEFUL RETURN
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