The Frozen North

Edith Horton

The Frozen North offers short sketches of the first men who bravely took great risks to explore the unknown polar regions and unlock the mysteries held there. - Summary by Laura Victoria

Genre(s): Exploration, History

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 Preface Laura Victoria
00:02:22
Play 01 Introduction Laura Victoria
00:10:16
Play 02 Sir John Franklin 1818 Laura Victoria
00:06:05
Play 03 Franklin's First Land Journey 1819-1821 Laura Victoria
00:10:55
Play 04 Franklin's Second Land Journey 1825-1827 Laura Victoria
00:07:30
Play 05 The Voyage of the Erebus and the Terror 1845 Laura Victoria
00:11:00
Play 06 Elisha Kent Kane 1853 Laura Victoria
00:05:28
Play 07 Winter in Rensselaer Harbor 1853-1854 Laura Victoria
00:06:26
Play 08 The Eskimoes 1854 Laura Victoria
00:06:28
Play 09 Hunting in the Icy North Laura Victoria
00:08:21
Play 10 Home Again 1855 Laura Victoria
00:11:23
Play 11 Nordenskjold and the Northeast Passage 1878-1879 Laura Victoria
00:19:12
Play 12 Voyage of the Jeannette 1879-1881 Laura Victoria
00:15:44
Play 13 Greely in Grinnell Land 1881-1883 Laura Victoria
00:08:04
Play 14 Farthest North of the Greely Party 1882 Laura Victoria
00:11:39
Play 15 Lieutenant Schwatka in Alaska 1883 Laura Victoria
00:14:13
Play 16 Nansen Crosses Greenland 1888 Laura Victoria
00:24:58
Play 17 The Voyage of the Fram 1893-1896 Laura Victoria
00:17:27
Play 18 Peary Crosses Greenland 1891-1897 Laura Victoria
00:26:34
Play 19 Andrees Balloon Expedition to the Pole 1897 Laura Victoria
00:07:44
Play 20 Expedition of 1902 Laura Victoria
00:06:16
Play 21 The Discovery of the North Pole by Robert E. Peary Laura Victoria
00:17:48