The Field of Ice: Part II of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras

This is the second part of Verne's "The Adventures of Captain Hatteras". The Forward having burned down and finally exploded, there were only a few weeks of heating and food resources left for the castaways, who could not imagine staying put. Hatteras is resolved to go to the Pole, which he imagines perhaps more temperate and even inhabited. His companions imagine a long walk to the coast where they could find hypothetical whalers or tribes of Eskimos. At the moment of maximum tension, the survivor, the American Altamont, managed to utter a few words: the Porpoise, his boat that he and his crew had abandoned before being killed, was wrecked north with large quantities of resources. The next stage of the expedition is found.