dodge arthur malcolm (2 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Good. First Edition. Pages 63-124. Printed on glossy stock. Numerous black and white photos. Features: A summer voyage to Greenland; The new sweet-peas; Fred Lewis Pattee; The church and men; Cameron's joke; Coasting on Mile Hill; Hollis - An Agricultural town - feature article with many photos; Dorothys choice; Trust; New Hampshire Necrology. Peripheral chipping. Contents in quality condition. A worthy copy.

A visual document of Peary's fourth expedition to Arctic latitudes, compiled by one of the six Boston-area academics invited by Peary to undertake scientific research in Greenland. The well-composed photographs capture the appearance of human habitations and of icy vistas at Karajak. During the US North Greenland Expedition, 1893-5, Peary sighted and reached the Cape York Meteorite, becoming the first Western explorer to achieve this feat, and his 1896 return to Greenland was his first concerted effort to locate and remove the largest fragment. Peary, his assistants, and the Boston group, together with a team from Cornell University, travelled to Greenland onboard the steam whaler Hope. The ship was commanded by the experienced Arctic seaman Captain John Bartlett (1848-1927), who had skippered the Kite on its mission to relieve Peary in 1895. The party spent over a month in Greenland, the Bostonians splitting off from the main group at the settlement of Uummannaq on 5 August and spending the next month undertaking research on wildlife and glaciers in the vicinity. Reunited in September, the expedition returned to America in late September. Dodge (1862-1926), who was recruited while in training to become a doctor at Harvard University, described the expedition in his article "A Summer Voyage to Greenland" (The Granite Monthly, February 1898, pp. 63-71). The first photographs show the 23-man party on the Hope, Peary standing towards the top of the stairs in a light-coloured jacket. In the front row crouches Matthew Henson, the African-American polar explorer who was central to Peary's later attainment of the pole. The following two photographs show Uummannaq. While based at the settlement, the group ventured to Ikerasak, some 30 miles away, Dodge photographing the stone church, Inuit in front of an umiak boat, and a portrait of a Danish trader with his Inuit wife and children, captioned "Governor of Ikerasak and family." The party also travelled 60 miles up the fjord to the Karajak glaciers, the largest (photographed by Dodge from a distance and in close up) around five miles across at its front. The final images show a member of the party sketching and Niantilik, Blacklead Island, where the Hope stopped on the journey home. Dodge's letters home from the expedition are held by the New York Public Library (MssCol 6381), and Dartmouth holds a collection of 104 of Dodge's photographs from Greenland. Four photographs in this album - two from Ikerasak and two from Karajak - were published in Dodge's Granite Monthly article, although one ("Great Karajak Glacier") was cropped. Writing his piece, Dodge was convinced of Peary's potential for further greatness: "I will close this little sketch of my Arctic experience with the prophecy that the North pole is reached within five years, and that Lieutenant Peary is the man who will have the honor of hoisting Old Glory over the spot from which every direction is south" (p. 71). Oblong folio (190 x 1290 mm). Together, 13 green leaves, tied with cream ribbon, first decoratively hand-lettered in silver and white, remainder each with mounted matt gelatin silver photograph (c. 120 x 190 mm), 12 photographs in total, pencilled captions (likely in Dodge's hand). Offsetting on verso of final leaf, a little fading and touch of edge-wear to photographs, most with creasing at lower left corner: near-fine.