Northward Over the Great Ice - Volume 1 : 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 etc.
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Northward over the Great Ice 2 Volume Set
ISBN-10
1108041825
ISBN-13
9781108041829
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 19th, 2012
Print length
602 Pages
Weight
772 grams
Dimensions
14.20 x 21.70 x 3.80 cms
Product Classification:
Historical geographyHistorical geographyClassic travel writing
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Written by Arctic explorer Robert Edwin Peary, this two-volume memoir, published in 1898, recounts his exploration of Greenland, and his first attempts to reach the North Pole, in his expeditions of 1891–2, 1893–5, and 1896–7. Volume 1 documents Peary's first two trips of 1886 and 1891–2.
Robert Edwin Peary (1856–1920), the distinguished American Arctic explorer, is usually credited as the first person to have reached the geographic North Pole, in 1909. First published in 1898, this two-volume work recounts Peary's expeditions across the interior ice-cap of Northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891–7. It describes Peary's contacts with the local Inuit tribes and the valuable scientific discoveries he made in geography, and natural history. Peary also documents the discovery and conveyance to the United States of the Cape York meteorites, from which the Inuit had extracted iron, but whose whereabouts had been a secret. In Volume 1, Peary recounts his first two expeditions in Greenland. On the first, in 1886, he travelled over the Greenland ice sheet for 100 miles. On the second, in 1891–2, he and seven companions (including his wife) sledged 1300 miles to North-East Greenland.
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