Wild Adventures round the Pole
Wild Adventures round the Pole
Or, The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon"
35 Chapters
- 1 The Twin Rivers—A Busy Scene—Old Friends with New Faces—The Building of the Great Ship—People’s Opinions—Ralph’s Highland Home.
- 2 The Dinner by the Lake—Rory’s Run Round Africa—The Return of the Wanderers.
- 3 Retrospection—Ralph’s Home in England—A Hearty if not Poetic Welcome.
- 4 Life at Leigh Hall—The Launch of the “Arrandoon”—Trial Trips—A Row and a Fight—“Freezing Powders.”
- 5 Danger on the Deep—A Forest of Waterspouts—The “Arrandoon” is Swamped—The Warning.
- 6 A Life on the Ocean Wave—On the Rocks—Mystery—A Home on the Rolling Deep.
- 7 Sandie McFlail, M.D.—“Wha Wouldna’ be a Sea-Bird?”—The Girl Tells Her Strange Adventures—Nightfall on the Sea.
- 8 A Gale from the Mountains—Daybreak in Iceland—The Great Balloon Ascent—Rory’s Yarn—The Snow-Cloud—The Pirate is Seen.
- 9 Mount Hekla—The Great Geyser—A Narrow Escape—The Search for the Pirate—McBain’s Little “Ruse de Guerre”—The Battle Begun.
- 10 “Down with the Red Flag and up with the Black!”—Victory—An Old Acquaintance—Hie, for the North.
- 11 The Voyage Resumed—A Pleasant Evening—“Those Rushing Winds”—The “Arrandoon” Grows Saucy—The Doctor Spread-Eagled—A School of Whales.
- 12 The Isle of Jan Mayen—Retrospection—The Sea of Ice—The Deserted Village—Carried off by a Bear—Dancing for Dear Life.
- 13 More about Freezing Powders—“Perseverando”—Dining in the Sky—The Descent of the Crater.
- 14 Anxious Hours—Exploration of the Mountain Cavern—The Cave of the King of Ice, and Ghouls of a Thousand Winters—Transformation Scenes—Snowblind—Lost.
- 15 The “Arrandoon” Anchors to the “Floe”—The Visit to the “Canny Scotia”—Silas Grig—A Sad Scene—Rory Relieves His Feelings—Strangers Coming from the Far West.
- 16 Silas Grig’s Dinner-Party—A New Member of the Malacopterygii—The Storm on the Sea of Ice—Break-up of the Main Pack—Roughing it at Sea.
- 17 The Storm—The “Canny Scotia” in Distress—Rum, Mutiny, Anarchy, and Death—Saved—Adventure with a She-Bear—Capture of the Young.
- 18 A New Arrival—The Dogs—Trapper Seth Becomes Kennel-Man—Preparations for a Great Seal Hunt—The Greenland Bear.
- 19 “Silas Grig, His Yarn”—The White Whale—Afloat on an Iceberg—A Dreary Journey—Bear Adventures—“The Seals! The Seals!”
- 20 Seal-Stalking—A Glorious Day’s Sport—Piper Peter and the Bear—A Strange Duet—The Seal-Stalkers’ Return.
- 21 The Coming Frost—Silas Warns the “Arrandoon” of Danger—Forging Through the Ice—Beset—A Strange and Alarming Accident.
- 22 Captain Cobb Retires—More Torpedoing—The Great Ice-Hole—Strange Sport—The Terrible Zugaena—The Death Struggle.
- 23 Rory’s Reverie—Silas on the Scymnus Borealis—The Battle with the Sharks—Rory Gets in for it again—Thrown among the Sharks.
- 24 May-Day in the Arctic Regions.
- 25 Breaking Up of the Great Ice Pack—In the Nips—The “Canny Scotia” on her Beam-Ends—Staving of the “Arrandoon.”
- 26 An Adventure on the Pack—Separated from the Ship—Despair—The Dream of Home—Under Way Once More.
- 27 Working along the Pack Edge—Among the Seals again—A Bumper Ship—Adventures on the Ice—Ted Wilson’s Promotion.
- 28 A Wonderful Yankee—“Making Off” Skins—Preparing to “Bear up”—The Summer Home of the Giant Walrus—The Ships Part.
- 29 Northward Ho!—Hoisting Beacons—The White Fog—The Great Sea-Serpent.
- 30 Land Ho! The Isle of Desolation—The Last Blink of Sunshine—The Aurora Borealis—Strange Adventure with a Bear.
- 31 A Council—Preparing for Winter Quarters—The Isle of Alba and its Mammoth Caves—Magnus’s Tale—At his Boy’s Grave.
- 32 The Terrible Snowstorm—Something Like an Aquarium—The Mammoth Caves and their Startling Treasures—The Journey Polewards—Collapse of the Balloon—“God Save The Queen.”
- 33 Another Winter at the Pole—Christmas Day—The Curtain rises on the Last Act—Sickness—Death—Despair.
- 34 A Sailor’s Cottage—The Telegram—“Something’s in the Wind”—The Good Yacht “Polar Star”—Hope for the Wanderers.
- 35 The Rescue—Homeward Bound—All’s Well that Ends Well.