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Publicado por New York: Frederick Stokes Company, 1910., 1910
Librería: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
8vo. pp. xxxii, 373. with half-title. 8 colour plates (incl. frontis.), 32 double-sided plates (with multiple illus.), large folding coloured map, & several text facsimiles. original decorative cloth, gilt, t.e.g. (extremities bit rubbed). Second Edition. Narrative of Peary s last expedition, 1908-09, on the Roosevelt, describing the passage through the ice of Smith Sound-Robeson Channel, the wintering at Camp Jesup, Cape Sheridan, north of Ellesmere Island, and the march on the Pole, which was reached on April 6, 1909. Peary s record was disputed by Dr. Frederick Cook, who claimed to have preceded him in 1908, but Cook s claim was disallowed, and most arctic scientists agree that Peary was the first man to reach the Pole. cfArctic Bib. 13230. cfNational Maritime Museum I 985.
Publicado por New York: Frederick A.Stokes Company, 1898., 1898
Librería: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
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2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 2 p.l., [xv]-lxxx, 521; 1 p.l., [v]-xiv, 625. profusely illus. with 9 maps (1 folding), portraits, plates (1 folding), & text illus. original cloth, t.e.g., others untrimmed. First Edition. Including accounts of the reconnaissance of the Greenland inland ice in 1886, the North Greenland expedition of 1891-92, on which the insularity of Greenland was determined, the previously unknown shores of Inglefield Gulf and of Whale and Murchison Sounds were mapped, and a successful sledge journey was made across the icecap to Peary Land and return, &c., the North Greenland expedition of 1893-94, based in Bowdoin Bay, the North Greenland expedition of 1894-95, on which another icecap journey was made to Peary Land, and the summer voyages of 1896-97, describing excavations of meteorites at Cape York and cruise in Smith Sound. Arctic Bib. 13231. cfNational Maritime Museum I 980.