The Land of Desolation : Being a Personal Narrative of Adventures in Greenland (Paperback)

Preface; Part I. Ruins: 1. Ice and breakers; 2. Free from dangers; 3. A hopeful town in a hopeless place; 4. Eric the Red; 5. 'The Arctic Six'; 6. Up the fiord in an oomiak; 7. The ruins of Ericsfiord; 8. The Northmen in Greenland; 9. The Northmen in America; 10. The last man; 11. A disconsolate lover; 12. The church at Julianashaab; 13. A Greenland parliament; 14. A Greeland ball; Part II. Palaces of Nature: 1. Ice and snow; 2. Glaciers and icebergs; 3. The solitary hut of Peter Motzfeldt; 4. The glacier; 5. Crossing the glacier; 6. Speculations; 7. Measurements of glaciers; 8. The birth of an iceberg; 9. A narrow escape; 10. Icebergs critically examined; 11. Man versus musquitoes; 12. A picnic on the glacier; 13. Bound for the Arctic Circle; Part III. Under the Midnight Sun: 1. Across the Arctic Circle; 2. Beyond civilisation; 3. Ice-navigation; 4. Hunting by steam; 5. Among the ice-fields of Melville Bay; 6. The last white man; 7. The fiord of Aukpadlartok; 8. Upernavik; 9. Disco Island; 10. Jacobshavn; 11. A week in Godhavn.