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    Adrift on an Ice-Pan
    Adrift on an Ice-Pan
    Adrift on an Ice-Pan
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    Adrift on an Ice-Pan

    By Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

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    Release dateJan 1, 1992
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      I very much enjoyed this short audiobook. I had heard of Grenfell's work in Newfoundland but have never read anything by him. This book is about a journey he took with his dog sled team to render medical help. He decided to take a shortcut across a bay but found that the ice was not solid. He and his dogs went into the icy water but they finally managed to make it to a small sheet of ice. For the rest of the day and the night Grenfell and his dogs were on this ice pan. Miraculously he survived but he had to kill three of his dogs to do so. Everywhere he lived since then he had a plaque to the memory of those three dogs.

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    Title: Adrift on an Ice-Pan

    Author: Wilfred T. Grenfell

    Release Date: August 14, 2006 [EBook #19044]

    Language: English

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    By Wilfred T. Grenfell

    THE ADVENTURE OF LIFE.

    ADRIFT ON AN ICE-PAN. Illustrated.

    HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

    Boston and New York

    ADRIFT ON AN ICE-PAN

    ADRIFT ON AN

    ICE-PAN

    BY

    WILFRED THOMASON GRENFELL

    M.D. (OXON), C.M.G.

    ILLUSTRATED FROM PHOTOGRAPHS

    BY DR. GRENFELL AND OTHERS

    BOSTON AND NEW YORK

    HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

    COPYRIGHT 1909

    BY WILFRED THOMASON GRENFELL

    ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

    PUBLISHED JUNE 1909

    CONTENTS

    ILLUSTRATIONS

    BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

    "Most Noble Vice-Chancellor, and You, Eminent Proctors:

    A citizen of Britain is before you, once a student in this University, now better known to the people of the New World than to our own. This is the man who fifteen years ago went to the coast of Labrador, to succor with medical aid the solitary fishermen of the northern sea; in executing which service he despised the perils of the ocean, which are there most terrible, in order to bring comfort and light to the wretched and sorrowing. Thus, up to the measure of human ability, he seems to follow, if it is right to say it of any one, in the footsteps of Christ Himself, as a truly Christian man. Rightly then we praise him by whose praise not he alone, but our University also is honored. I present to you Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, that he may be admitted to the degree of Doctor in Medicine, HONORIS CAUSA.

    Thus may be rendered the Latin address when, in May, 1907, for the first time in its history, the University of Oxford conferred the honorary degree in medicine. With these fitting words was presented a man whose simple faith has been the motive power of his works, to whom pain and weariness of flesh have called no stay since there was discouragement never, to whom personal danger has counted as nothing since fear is incomprehensible. As the Lord wills, whether for wreck or service, I am about His business. On November 9th of the preceding year, the King of England gave one of his Birthday Honors to the same man, making him a Companion of St. Michael and St. George (C.M.G.).

    Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, second son of the Rev. Algernon Sydney Grenfell and Jane Georgiana Hutchinson, was born on the twenty-eighth day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, at Mostyn House School, Parkgate, by Chester, England, of an ancestry which laid a firm foundation for his career and in surroundings which fitted him for it. On both sides of his inheritance have been exhibited the courage, patience, persistence, and fighting and teaching qualities which are exemplified in his own abilities to command, to administer, and to uplift.

    On his father's side were the Grenvilles, who made good account of themselves in such cause as they approved, among them Basil Grenville, commander of the Royalist Cornish Army, killed at Lansdown in 1643 in defence of King Charles.

    "Four wheels to Charles's wain:

    Grenville, Trevanion, Slanning, Godolphin slain."

    There was also Sir Richard Grenville, immortalized by Tennyson in The Revenge, and John Pascoe Grenville, the right-hand man of Admiral Cochrane, who boarded the Spanish admiral's ship, the Esmeralda, on the port side, while Cochrane came up

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