The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-06
NORTH POLE EXPLORATIONS.

The Great White North: the story. oi
Polar Exploration from the Earliest
Times 10 the Discovery Of the Pole
BY Helen :. Wright. The Macmillan
Company, Publishers. New York,
The public has been waiting with
keen interest for book such as this,
and surely now that il has appeared it
will not ouly meet the desire of the
public, ''fill d long felt want as the
saving is. but il is a right worthy book
in and of itself. We have here an ac'
count Of the earliest adventures polar
ward of Pytheas, Dicuil, Other, Wulf-
stan, The Norsemen, Iva Bardsen, The
Cabots,, The Cortereals, Willoughby and
Chancellor, stephen Burrough. Nlccolo
Ieno, Frobsher, Pet and Jackman. Sir
Humphrey Gilbert, Davis, and Barenta.
Then in the Seventeenth and
Eighteenth centuries we have accounts
of the explorations of Hudson, Baffin,
Deshnefl, Behring. SchalaroH, TchiC-
schagof, Anjou and Won Wrangell, and
Pbipps, In the early Nineteenth cen;
tury we have the voyages of Ross and
Parry aud the discoveries made by
them, the Buchan and Franklin north
polar expedition and the failure of
both. Then from 1919 to 1927 We have
Parry VOYAGES fully described and his
farthest north recorded Then come
the voyages of Scoresby and Claverlng,
VI captain Lyon, VI Nhplhip Deechcy,
the second voyage of Captain John
Ross, the discovery of the north mag
nctic pole by the nephew of Captain
John Ross, the voyage of Commander
James Clark Ross, the land iourn..; OF
Captai Back. how the overland jour
ncy in 1916 by DR.. John Rae confirmed
. Captain john Ross s reports.
Next we come TO the disastrous eX
pora tiou of Sir John Franklin and
the long, perilous. toilsome. and fruit
less search for him and the remains
of his company. The scurchers in this
quest all receive honorable mention,
and they are certainly deserving of it.
IT was n world thrilling affair from
first to last -Four chapters arc given
to the Franklin exploration and the
search for his remains. We then have
Sir Edward Belcher's journey. Com
mander McCintock s trips. the Grinnell
expeditions, the explorations of DR..
Elisha Kent Kane, DR.. Hayes's eype
dtion with his report of the open polar
sea, Charles Franris Hall 8 expedition
with the wreck of the Polaris and the |
flnal rescue and return to the United
States; and all of the expeditions from
ing Nordensk. .iold s The British ex-
petition OF 1895, the Jeanette eXpe- |
.dition. the Dutch expedition. the Gree /
ley expedition, Schlev's brilliant res.
cue of the remnant OF the Lady Frank. I
liu Bav expedition. the Nansen jour /
ney. with his ''farihest north;' the
italian expedition under thc Duke of
the Abruzzi, the Ieigler expedition un-
der ANTHONY Fiala. the Sverdrup ey-
petition and his four years voyage
in the Fran. Then come the Roald
= hmundscn efforts. the NAVIGATION Of
the northwest passage and the redis-
cpvery Of the magnetic pole. The va
rious expeditions of Robert f. Peary
and his final dash for the pole aud
discovery OF it in 1900 the DR.. Cook
clam the acceptance Of Peary s. claim
case OF Cook-ull are set forth with
due prominence, candor, md faithful
ness. There is an explanation of terms
;by way oi "A glossary. aud full index
10 the work, which is one Of the high
est value The author has performed
her work in right scientific and thor
ough fashion.