Buchbeschreibung

PEARY, Robert Edwin.

Nearest the Pole. A narrative of the Polar expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S.S. Roosevelt, 1905–1906.

London, Hutchinson & Co., 1907. 4to (255 x 180 mm), pp. xx, 410, with a coloured frontispiece, one folding map and numerous illustrations in the text; original navy-blue cloth; a little rubbed, extremities frayed. First London edition. Peary made several attempts to reach the North Pole before he supposedly reached it in 1909. In this, his second to last expedition he claimed to have reached 87º06', the farthest north any had yet been.

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