""Table of contents""; ""introduction""; ""unalaska and the aleuts""; ""among the islands of bering sea""; ""siberian adventures""; ""in peril from the pack""; ""a chukchi orator""; ""eskimos and walrus""; ""at plover bay and st. michael""; ""return of the search party""; ""villages of the dead""; ""glimpses of alaskan tundra""; ""caribou and a native fair""; ""zigzags among the polar pack""; ""first ascent of herald island""; ""approaching a mysterious land""; ""the land of the white bear""; ""tragedies of the whaling fleet""; ""meeting the point barrow expedition""
""A siberian reindeer herd""""turned back by storms and ice""; ""homeward bound""; ""appendix i""; ""appendix ii""
Summary
Annotation. The story of Muir's journey 15,000 nautical miles from San Francisco into the Artic Sea