Preface; Part I. 1. The Arctic regions; 2. Ice and icebergs; 3. Tribes around the pole; 4. Ultima Thule; 5. First crossing of the threshold; 6. The Norsemen in Greenland; 7. Nicholas of Lynn - Zeno - medieval nautical instruments; 8. First English voyages to the north-east - Willoughby - Chancellor Burroughs - Pet; 9. Barentsz - Linschoten - De Veer; 10. Sir Martin Frobisher; 11. John Davis; 12. The merchant adventurers and Richard Hakluyt; 13. Greenland voyage of Hall and Baffin; 14. Early Spitsbergen voyages; 15. Early voyages to Hudson's Bay; 16. William Baffin; 17. Jens Eriksen Munk - Foxe and James - Wood; 18. Hans Egede and Danish Greenland; 19. The Hudson's Bay Company - Hearne and Mackenzie - Cook and Phipps; 20. Russian Arctic discoveries; 21. The British whale fishery and the Scoresbys; 22. Buchan and Ross; 23. Parry and his school; 24. Discovery of the north coast of America - Franklin - Richardson - Back - Dease - Simpson - Rae; 25. John Ross, James Ross, and the north magneti...