Wild Adventures in Wild Places

Chapter One. - Part I—The Moors and Fens of England. - In the Depths of the Forest—Frank and his Toad—A Day with the Hounds—The Furies’ Leap—“That Fox was my Fate.”

Chapter Two. - Frank undergoes the Process of “Hardening Off”—Camp-life on the Banks of the Thames—A Week among Rabbits—“’Ware Hare.”

Chapter Three. - Frank is thoroughly “Hardened Off”—Deer-stalking in the Highlands—Partridge, Pheasant, and Duck Shooting—“Good-bye”—“None but the Brave deserve the Fair.”

Chapter Four. - Part II—The Polar Ice-Fields. - Outward bound—Night in the Pack—The Aurora—The awful Silence of the Ice-fields—Seals! Seals!—The Battle with the Bladder-noses—Jack in the Box with a Vengeance—A Fight with Walruses.

Chapter Five. - The West Land of Greenland—A Fall! a Fall!—Danger on all Sides—“Man the Ice-saws”—Working for Life—Beset in the Dreary Pack.

Chapter Six. - Winter in the Ice-fields—The Ice breaks up—Sailing South—A Sledge Adventure—The Storm and Shipwreck—Afloat on an Iceberg—Land! land!—A terrible Journey—Cronstadt.

Chapter Seven. - Part III—The Russian Steppes. - Quiet days on the Kyra—Captain Varde’s happy Home—Fred Freeman’s Rustic Russian—The Captain tells a tale of Adventure.

Chapter Eight. - The Captain’s tale continued—Winter brings the Bears from the Mountains—The Tragedy in the Forest—Bears at Bay—Breast to breast with Bruin—Fred Freeman falls in love!

Chapter Nine. - The Russian Steppes (concluded). - Pleasant Times—A Glorious Hide—A Happy Christmas—Boar-hunting—Attacked by Wolves.

Chapter Ten. - Part IV—The Wilds of Africa. - Off to the Cape—Among the Rock Rabbits—A Wild Ride—Lost on the plains.