Ebook: Harnessed to the Pole: sledge dogs in service to American explorers of the Arctic, 1853-1909

Jules Verne : how fiction transported the first dogs to the North Pole -- Sir John Franklin How, in reality, a lost explorer needed dogs -- What was the Greenland dog? -- "Sledge" or "sled"? -- Toodla and Whitey, the first famous sledge dogs -- Henry Bergh saving the dogs of New York, not knowing the dogs of Greenland -- Oosisoak and Arkadik, king and queen of the sledge dogs -- Disease and diet -- Dogs and drivers : the essential team -- Seeking companionship : when dogs were not available -- Barbekark the hunter -- Dogs as showmen -- Wolf, Smarty, Bear, Shoemaker, and Tiger : riding a doomed ship -- Tommy the cat and the lemmings : life and death after the dogs -- Bear, Spike, and the nameless prisoners : castaways on ice -- Toekelegeto, Ublubliaq, Miqijuk : racing with hunger -- The importance of naming -- Kasmatka, Snoozer, Bingo, Snuffy, Tom, Jack, and Wolf : drifting to farewell -- The polar bear -- Gypsy, Old Sneak, Ritenbenk, Disco King : the abandoned -- The nameless known by their number -- Heart-hungers -- Nalegaksoah, king of the team -- Commemoration.