Fur-Clad Adventurers
Or, Travels in Skin-Canoes, on Dog-Sledges, on Reindeer, and on Snow-Shoes, through Alaska, Kamchatka, and Eastern Siberia

A compilation of the accounts of explorers on the Western Union Telegraph Expedition through the Arctic, first published in 1880.

Zacariah Atwell Mudge (Author)

9781108050005, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 14 June 2012

348 pages, 4 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2 cm, 0.44 kg

Z. A. Mudge (1813–88) was an American pastor, author and Arctic exploration enthusiast. After the success of his popular books North Pole Voyages and Arctic Heroes, he wrote this book on the Western Union Telegraph Expedition. In the mid-nineteenth century the Western Union Telegraph Company decided to create a telegraph line that would run from San Francisco, California to Moscow, Russia. The line was to run through Alaska and Siberia, and although the project was abandoned in 1867, a large amount of Arctic exploration had been achieved in the meantime. This book, first published in 1880, is Mudge's compilation of the accounts of some of the explorers who were involved in different stages of the expedition, including the naturalist W. H. Dall during his exploration in Alaska. Mudge goes on to include the Siberian experiences of George Kennan and W. H. Bush (whose own account is also reissued in this series).

Preface
1. A start
2. First dog-sledging
3. A sad story
4. In skin-canoes
5. At Fort Yukon
6. Indian and Inuit traits
7. A sea-girt town
8. A native village
9. A comical mistake
10. Up a mountain ravine
11. A fearful ride
12. Among the reindeer koraks
13. A curious marriage ceremony
14. Yankee dog-sledge driving
15. The Arctic night
16. A Russo-Greek Christmas
17. Rescued comrades
18. Things humorous and sublime
19. Perils in the waters
20. Down the Amoor
21. A novel town
22. Reindeer riding
23. Over the mountains
24. A thrilling story
25. Things grave and gay
26. On snow-shoes
27. Incidents by the way
28. Hospitable halting places
29. More dog-sledging
30. Macrae's story
31. Waiting
32. Afloat on the Anadyr
33. News from home
34. Cheerful and sad things
35. A pleasant meeting
36. Homeward.

Subject Areas: Historical geography [HBTP]