Preface -- Prologue -- "I was shivering in my boots" -- "I could do the job" -- "The island of my dreams" -- "Irrepressible restlessness" -- "Chaos" -- "I am good at something here" -- "Only as skeletons in a museum" -- "Hell on Earth" -- "Give me winter, give me dogs, you can have the rest" -- "Big Peter" -- "It is the dark and cold that make us think most" -- "We must pay for its beauty time after time" -- "Life loomed ahead" -- "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" -- "What a way to die" -- "What is so funny?" -- "I had a premonition" -- "But now it had charged me a bitter commission" -- Storfanger -- "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" -- "Hollywood perspective" -- "Strange, independent personalities" -- "Loved to serve a good cause" -- "Once all this is done with" -- "Is it worth it?" -- "The rest of my life would be a voyage" -- "But this habit of not guarding my tongue" -- "It was not easy" -- "It was business (maybe monkey business)" -- "It was love at first sight" -- "The poetry of progress" -- "Peter Freuchen has lived nine lives" -- Epilogue.