Polar Journeys: The Role of Food and Nutrition in Early Exploration Book

	List of Illustrations
	List of Tables
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Chronology: Major Events in Exploration
	Summary: Principal Advances in Food and Nutrition
	Introduction: Food and Exploration	1
1	The Search for Better Food and Nutrition	5
2	Food Processing, Preservation, and Polar Exploration	15
3	Early Exploration	23
4	The Eskimos	29
5	Northern Exploration from 1500 to 1800	35
6	Arctic Exploration in the First Half of the 19th Century	43
7	The Agonizing Searches for Franklin	55
8	Nares, Greely, and DeLong: Still Unsuccessful and Tragic Probes to the North	67
9	The Latter-Day Vikings	79
10	Races to the North Pole: Robert Peary and Frederick Cook	91
11	The Almost Eskimo: Vilhjalmur Stefansson	101
12	In To the South Pacific and On To Antarctica	111
13	First Expeditions in Antarctica: Amundson, Mawson, Shackelton, and Scott	125
14	The Quest for the South Pole: Successes and Deaths	141
15	Douglas Mawson's Heroic Return	165
16	The Arctic and Antarctica After World War I	181
17	Antarctica Since World War II	193
18	Space Exploration	203
	Conclusion: Food and Exploration Today	217
App. A	Descriptions of Nutrition	221
App. B	Food and Nutrition in the Frozen Cold	229
App. C	Hypervitaminosis A	237
	Bibliography	247
	Index	259