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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS
- PART I VOYAGE OF H.M.S. “EREBUS” AND “TERROR” TO THE ANTARCTIC SEAS
- CHAPTER I Departure from England –At Madeira—Ascent of Pico Ruivo
- CHAPTER II
- CHAPTER III
- CHAPTER IV
- CHAPTER V
- CHAPTER VI
- CHAPTER VII
- CHAPTER VIII
- CHAPTER IX
- CHAPTER X
- CHAPTER XI
- CHAPTER XII
- CHAPTER XIII
- CHAPTER XIV
- CHAPTER XV
- CHAPTER XVI
- CHAPTER XVII
- CHAPTER XVIII Quail-shooting at Risdon—Lindisferne limestone fossils—Levées—The Erebus and Terror ball—Visiting—The bushranger defeated
- CHAPTER XIX Leave for Sydney—Visits—Trip to Paramatta—New Zealand—Description—Visit to the chief Pomaré—His farm
- CHAPTER XX
- CHAPTER XXI
- CHAPTER XXII Trip inland, and my night out in the woods—Shooting birds—Sail from the Bay of Islands after three months' stay
- CHAPTER XXIII
- CHAPTER XXIV Closely beset in the pack—Episode of the dying petrel—Animal instinct—Twelfth-night—The Christmas Berg
- CHAPTER XXV
- CHAPTER XXVI
- CHAPTER XXVII
- CHAPTER XXVIII Trip to Swan Bay—Description of the camp—Streams of stones—Bird-shooting—Departure
- CHAPTER XXIX Hermite Island, Cape Horn—Tierra del Fuego—The natives and their wigwams—My solitary exploration of the island—Ascent of Forster's Peak
- CHAPTER XXX
- CHAPTER XXXI Summary of Hermite Island—Geology—Ornithology—Botany
- CHAPTER XXXII Second visit to the Falkland Islands—Berkeley Sound—Search for specimens—Birds and eggs—Summary
- CHAPTER XXXIII
- CHAPTER XXXIV
- CHAPTER XXXV
- CHAPTER XXXVI
- CHAPTER XXXVII
- PART II ATTEMPT TO REACH THE NORTH POLE IN THE YEAR 1827
- APPENDIX List of reindeer shot in Treurenberg Bay, Spitzbergen, by the officers and crew of H.M.S. Hecla in the year 1827
- PLANS FOR REACHING THE NORTH AND SOUTH POLES. BY THE AUTHOR
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS
- PART I VOYAGE OF H.M.S. “EREBUS” AND “TERROR” TO THE ANTARCTIC SEAS
- CHAPTER I Departure from England –At Madeira—Ascent of Pico Ruivo
- CHAPTER II
- CHAPTER III
- CHAPTER IV
- CHAPTER V
- CHAPTER VI
- CHAPTER VII
- CHAPTER VIII
- CHAPTER IX
- CHAPTER X
- CHAPTER XI
- CHAPTER XII
- CHAPTER XIII
- CHAPTER XIV
- CHAPTER XV
- CHAPTER XVI
- CHAPTER XVII
- CHAPTER XVIII Quail-shooting at Risdon—Lindisferne limestone fossils—Levées—The Erebus and Terror ball—Visiting—The bushranger defeated
- CHAPTER XIX Leave for Sydney—Visits—Trip to Paramatta—New Zealand—Description—Visit to the chief Pomaré—His farm
- CHAPTER XX
- CHAPTER XXI
- CHAPTER XXII Trip inland, and my night out in the woods—Shooting birds—Sail from the Bay of Islands after three months' stay
- CHAPTER XXIII
- CHAPTER XXIV Closely beset in the pack—Episode of the dying petrel—Animal instinct—Twelfth-night—The Christmas Berg
- CHAPTER XXV
- CHAPTER XXVI
- CHAPTER XXVII
- CHAPTER XXVIII Trip to Swan Bay—Description of the camp—Streams of stones—Bird-shooting—Departure
- CHAPTER XXIX Hermite Island, Cape Horn—Tierra del Fuego—The natives and their wigwams—My solitary exploration of the island—Ascent of Forster's Peak
- CHAPTER XXX
- CHAPTER XXXI Summary of Hermite Island—Geology—Ornithology—Botany
- CHAPTER XXXII Second visit to the Falkland Islands—Berkeley Sound—Search for specimens—Birds and eggs—Summary
- CHAPTER XXXIII
- CHAPTER XXXIV
- CHAPTER XXXV
- CHAPTER XXXVI
- CHAPTER XXXVII
- PART II ATTEMPT TO REACH THE NORTH POLE IN THE YEAR 1827
- APPENDIX List of reindeer shot in Treurenberg Bay, Spitzbergen, by the officers and crew of H.M.S. Hecla in the year 1827
- PLANS FOR REACHING THE NORTH AND SOUTH POLES. BY THE AUTHOR
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- Voyages of Discovery in the Arctic and Antarctic Seas, and round the WorldBeing Personal Narratives of Attempts to Reach the North and South Poles, pp. 12 - 22Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014First published in: 1884