Contents -- Introduction -- Discovering Koettlitz -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1: Origins Of The Man -- 1 From Prussia to Dover -- 2 A practice in Durham -- 3 Frederick George Jackson -- Part 2: Early Expeditions -- 4 Franz Josef Land and the Eira -- 5 The expedition sets out -- 6 The first winter at Cape Flora -- 7 Spring sledging operations commence -- 8 Russian roulette and heading west -- 9 Death nears the May Harmsworth -- 10 The second winter at Cape Flora -- 11 Jackson head north once more -- 12 An historic moment -- 13 The final year at Cape Flora -- 14 The geology of Franz Josef Land -- Part 3: Through Africa and South America -- 15 Weld Blundell Expedition to Africa -- 16 For England and St George -- 17 Homeward bound -- 18 Planning for the Antarctic -- 19 Liverpool to Manaos -- 20 The Antarctic beckons -- Part 4: Antarctica -- 21 To the south -- 22 Through the Southern Ocean -- 23 The first winter on Antarctica -- 24 Sledging season 1902-1903 -- 25 Shackleton's departure -- 26 The mystery of colour photgraphy -- 27 The second winter and surgery -- 28 The release of the Discovery -- Part 5: Return to Africa -- 29 Final days in England -- 30 The rural doctor and farmer -- 31 Death of an explorer -- Appendices -- Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition to Franz Josef Land 1894-1897 -- Herbert Weld Blundell Expedition to North East Africa 1898-1899 -- National Antarctic Expedition 1901-1904 -- First colour photographs of the Antarctic continent by Dr Reginald Koettlitz 1902-1904 -- Index.