The North pole : its discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic club / by Robert E. Peary; with an introduction by Theodore Roosevelt and a foreword by Gilbert H. Grosvenor ... with eight full-page illustrations reproducing photographic enlargements colored by hand; one hundred illustrations in black-and-white, from photographs; and with a map in colors by Gilbert H. Grosvenor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920, author.

Contributor:

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919, writer of introduction.

Grosvenor, Gilbert Hovey, 1875-1966, writer of foreword, illustrator.

Stam, David H., associated name, former owner.

Stam, Deirdre Corcoran, associated name, former owner.

Frederick A. Stokes Company, publishers.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

North Pole.

Arctic regions.

Arctic Ocean--North Pole.

Arctic Regions.

Genre:

Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding).

Physical Description:

xxxii, 373 pages : color frontispiece, illustrations (facsimiles), plates (some color), folded maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, [NY] : Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1910.

Summary:

In April of 1909, a year after Frederick Cook claimed to have arrived at the North Pole, Robert Peary (1856-1920) announced that Cook had never reached this point and that he, Peary, was the first man to reach the pole. Peary's record of the expedition tells of the arduous conditions he and his men endured, first breaking through the ice in a ship, then traveling via dog sleds. Along the way, Peary made extensive observations on hunting wildlife such as reindeer and musk-oxen, the geographic wonders of the Pole, and the customs of the Eskimos among whom he spent much valuable time. Peary filled The North Pole with extensive data on his position and movements, information that Cook would attack when the Polar Controversy made international headlines. Goodreads.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

LIBRA Rare copy E185.96 .G38 2000 gift of David and Deirdre Stam, 2024.

OCLC:

2297797