Bylot, Button, and Baffin: when the search was new (1610-15) -- Luke Fox and Thomas James: the rival expeditions (1631-32) -- Christopher Middleton: Hudson Bay and the big search (1721-48) -- Edward Parry: five journeys to the Arctic (1818-27) -- John Ross and James Clark Ross: finding magnetic north (1829-33) -- John Franklin: life and death in the Arctic (1818-47) -- Peter Warren Dease and Thomas Simpson: charting the northern coast (1836-39) -- John Hall and others search for Franklin (1848-59) -- Roald Amundsen: touching the poles (1909) -- Robert E. Peary: at the roof of the world (1909)
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