1898 GREENLAND Voyages 1ed Robert Peary Great Ice Arctic Illustrated Eskimos 2v

1898 GREENLAND Voyages 1^ed Robert Peary Great Ice Arctic Illustrated Eskimos 2v

Robert Peary was a 19^th-century American explorer who made his fame on his numerous expeditions to the Arctic regions and claiming to have reached the North Pole. Prior to his 1909 expedition to the North Pole, Peary published an important report describing his first two Arctic voyages. In ‘Northward over the Great Ice’, Peary describes his voyage to Greenland and states

“this narrative has been written to supply a complete authentic record of my Arctic work and covers all my work. The reader will find no padding, no resumes of previous work nor constant reference to other explorers.”

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PEARY, Robert E

Northward over the “great ice” : a narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897 : with a description of the little tribe of Smith-Sound Eskimos, the most northerly human beings in the world, and an account of the discovery and bringing home of the “Saviksue” or great Cape-York meteorites

New York : Frederick A. Stokes, 1898. First American edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 volumes
  • Vol 1 – [4], xv-lxxx, 521, [1]
  • Vol 2 – [3], vi-xiv, 625, [1]
  • Illustrated with over 800 illustrations and PHOTOGRAPHS!
• References: Arctic Bib. 13231
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover; secure
  • Cloth
• Size: ~9.25in X 7in (23cm x 17.5cm)

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