The Fur Country
Lieutenant Jasper Hobson is sent by the Hudson’s Bay Company to build a fur-trading fort at the edge of the Arctic, on a cape jutting into the polar sea near the seventieth parallel. His party, which includes the intrepid traveler Mrs. Paulina Barnett and an astronomer sent to observe an eclipse, raises Fort Hope and settles in for a long, brutal winter of wolves, cold, and cabin fever. Then the ground betrays them. Their cape is no cape at all but a slab of ice torn loose from the mainland, now drifting on the open ocean and thawing beneath their feet. Survival becomes a race against the melting floor. Free to download as a PDF and EPUB edition.
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| # | Chapter | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Soirée at Fort Reliance | 18:34 | |
| 2 | The Hudson’s Bay Fur Company | 15:24 | |
| 3 | A Savant Thawed | 13:44 | |
| 4 | A Factory | 16:39 | |
| 5 | From Fort Reliance to Fort enterprise | 16:37 | |
| 6 | A Wapiti Duel | 18:15 | |
| 7 | The Arctic Circle | 18:10 | |
| 8 | The Great Bear Lake | 18:27 | |
| 9 | A Storm on the Lake | 19:07 | |
| 10 | A Retrospect | 15:04 | |
| 11 | Along the Coast | 16:15 | |
| 12 | The Midnight Sun | 16:07 | |
| 13 | Fort Hope | 17:11 | |
| 14 | Some Excursions | 16:07 | |
| 15 | Fifteen Miles from Cape Bathurst | 14:49 | |
| 16 | Two Shots | 18:02 | |
| 17 | The Approach of Winter | 19:26 | |
| 18 | The Polar Night | 21:35 | |
| 19 | A Neighbourly Visit | 21:07 | |
| 20 | Mercury Freezes | 15:16 | |
| 21 | The Large Polar Bears | 22:48 | |
| 22 | Five Months More | 19:10 | |
| 23 | The Eclipse of the 18th June 1860 | 21:34 | |
| 24 | A Floating Fort | 12:11 | |
| 25 | Where Are We? | 17:10 | |
| 26 | A Tour Of The Island | 19:32 | |
| 27 | A Night Encampment | 19:23 | |
| 28 | From July 25th To August 20th | 19:34 | |
| 29 | Ten Days Of Tempest | 16:36 | |
| 30 | A Fire And A Cry | 20:35 | |
| 31 | Mrs. Paulina Barnett’s Excursion | 23:16 | |
| 32 | Kalumah’s Adventures | 18:33 | |
| 33 | The Kamtchatka Current | 18:25 | |
| 34 | A Communication From Lieutenant Hobson | 18:05 | |
| 35 | A Chance To Be Tried | 19:14 | |
| 36 | Across The Ice-Field | 15:31 | |
| 37 | The Winter Months | 16:53 | |
| 38 | A Last Exploring Expedition | 23:33 | |
| 39 | The Break-Up Of The Ice | 17:54 | |
| 40 | The Avalanche | 13:23 | |
| 41 | All At Work | 20:13 | |
| 42 | Behring Sea | 17:06 | |
| 43 | In The Offing | 12:37 | |
| 44 | The Island Becomes An Isle | 11:13 | |
| 45 | The Four Following Days | 12:02 | |
| 46 | On A Piece Of Ice | 19:22 | |
| 47 | Conclusion | 4:19 |
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