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Acknowledgments

Prologue

"I Shall Find a Way or Make One"

The World's Greatest Hoax

Why the Public Accepted Cook

Peary Refuses Receptions or Awards

Greely and Schley Lead Attack against Peary

Peary's Early Life and Education

Surveying for a Nicaraguan Canal

First Greenland Expedition

Second Greenland Expedition

Discovery of Independence Bay

Third Greenland Expedition

Discovering the World's Greatest Meteorites

Attempts to Remove the Tent

The North Pole Becomes the Goal of Peary's Life

Night Sledging

Fort Conger

First Attempt to Reach the Pole, 1902

Second Polar Attempt, on the Roosevelt

In Winter Quarters at Cape Sheridan

Return from Man's "Fartherest North"

Exploring the Grant Land Coast

My First Meeting with Peary

George Borup's Diary

Walrus Hunting

The Long Arctic Night

The Winter Solstice

Hunting at Lake Hazen

Plan for the Polar Dash

Stopped at the Big Lead

Rejoining Peary

Bartlett Turns Back

The Pole at Last, April 6, 1909

Death of Ross Marvin

First News of Cook's Claim

Cook's Records Rejected

Cook's Posthumous Book

Awards to Peary

President Taft Recommends Recognition by Congress

Peary Advocates Air Power

Death of a Hero

Aftermath

PEARY'S SIGNBOARDS STILL POINT WAY TO NORTH POLE

MACMILLAN FINDS MARKER

PEARY'S WIDOW IS 89

Akeley of Africa

Akeley's Vision

Mounting Jumbo

African Adventures

A Lion Is a Gentleman

New Methods of Taxidermy

The Fascinating Elephant

The Cement Gun

In Africa with Roosevelt

Handling a Dead Elephant

The Wounded Comrade

Lion Spearing

The Akeley Camera

War Service

To Africa for Gorillas

Movies of Gorillas

The Old Man of Karisimbi

Plans for African Hall

The Last Expedition

Trails of the World

Discovery of the Flaming Cliffs

Voices in the Desert

Mapping a Mirage

Dinosaur Eggs

Eggs Capture the World

" How Did You Start Exploring? "

First Months in the Museum

The Amagansett Whale

My First Live Whale

Birth of a Baby Whale

Off to the East Indies

Adventure with a Python

Poisoned Stakes at Buru

Whaling in Japan

A Close Call

Rediscovering an "Extinct" Whale

A Horrible Show by the Killers

The Long White Mountain

Headwaters of the Yalu River

Land Explorations in China

Natives Who Had Never Seen a White Man

The Deadly Salween Valley

In China During the War

Urga, a City Out of the Past

Nearly Eaten by Dogs

Financing the Central Asiatic Expedition

The "Missing Link" Expedition

The First Dinosaur

Discovering the World's Largest Mammal

Back in Peking

Bandits on the Road

The Great Dinosaur Egg Auction

In the Gobi Again

A Plague of Snakes

Panic in Peking

Antiforeignism Interrupts Our Work

Good-by to China

DR. ANDREWS RESIGNS