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Contents
- Prologue Cape Sheridan, Ellesmere Island…1909
- Russia… 1842
- California… 1849
- Old Crow Wing, Minnesota…1850
- Java Sea…1863
- Norfolk, Virginia…1866
- Rome, Italy…1881
- New York City…1883
- Russian Alaska…1871
- San Francisco, California…1863
- Greenland…1880
- Cochin China…1874
- New York City…1884
- San Francisco, California…1873
- Whaling Ship, SHY LADY, Atlantic…1884
- Greenland…1882
- The Arctic…1870
- Mattaponsett, Massachusetts…1884
- Greenland…1884
- New Bedford, Massachusetts…1884
- New York City…1884
- New Bedford/Onset, Massachusetts…1884
- Chicago, Illinois…1884
- Trading Post, Greenland…1884
- Danville, Illinois…1884
- New Bedford/Mattaponsett, Massachusetts…1884
- New York City…1884
- Portland, Maine…1884
- Massachusetts…1885
- Halifax, Nova Scotia…1885
- The Bands
- The SHY LADY
- The Offer
- Anchorage and Eskimos
- Lak’s Camp
- Dinner and the Dark
- Lak’s Arrival
- The Lincoln Sea
- To The Pole
- A Feeling, A Bad Feeling
- And When the Time is Right
- The Hardship of the Quest
- Assault on the SHY LADY
- Thin Ice
- The Dead
- The Missing Man
- The Second Attack
- Questions and Answers
- Hostages
- If This Be Hell…
- Abandon Ship
- Blood on the Ice
- The Loss of the SHY LADY
- The Pole
- Survival
- A Dangerous Man
- A Difficult Decision
- No Time to Lose
- The Passing
- When Hope begins to Fade
- The Relief Party
- The Death of Peter
- Becoming a Man
- Help Needed!
- A Speck on the Horizon
- All that is Left
Epilogue Cape Sheridan, Ellesmere Island…1909