From the Book - First edition.
"I was shivering in my boots"
"The island of my dreams"
"Irrepressible restlessness"
"I am good at something here"
"Only as skeletons in a museum"
"Give me winter, give me dogs, you can have the rest"
"It is the dark and cold that make us think most"
"We must pay for its beauty time after time"
"A revolution was taking place in me"
"One gets the idea here..."
"A vast desert of cold and dead"
"Some dogs do not give a damn what they eat"
"I have hated pudding ever since"
"Even arctic explorers need publicity"
"But a pawn in this game of the gods"
"I could not leave the book alone"
"Whether she was an angel or not"
"Tired of being a curiosity"
"At least I have the remedy..."
"I know good men by sight"
"But now it had charged me a bitter commission"
"There was no reason to choose the slower and harder way"
"I have seen so many naked people in my time"
"Somebody here wants to see you"
"I want the elemental, infinite thing"
"I'll die on that icecap sometime"
"A turning point in my life"
"Eat their candy and listen to their stupidness"
"Unusual, spectacular, disturbing"
"Strange, independent personalities"
"Loved to serve a good cause"
"Once all this is done with"
"The rest of my life would be a voyage"
"But this habit of not guarding my tongue"
"It was business (maybe monkey business)"
"It was love at first sight"
"Peter Freuchen has lived nine lives"