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PEARY, Robert E. Nearest the Pole. A Narrative of the Polar Expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S.S. Roosevelt, 1905-1906.PEARY, Robert E. 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. Royal 8vo. Original black buckram, image of sledge team in gilt to upper cover, lettered in gilt; pp. xx, 412; colour frontispiece with captioned tissue guard, 98 photographic plates from the author's originals, 2 folding maps; very light wear to extremities; a little even toning to
PEARY, Robert E. 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.
Royal 8vo. Original black buckram, image of sledge-team in gilt to upper cover, lettered in gilt; pp. xx, 412; colour frontispiece with captioned tissue guard, 98 photographic plates from the author's originals, 2 folding maps; very light wear to extremities; a little even toning to endpapers, otherwise a fine, fresh copy with slightly later Edinburgh YMCA bookplate.
First UK edition. Peary's 1905-6 attempt on the North Pole by way of Smith Sound was sponsored by the Peary Arctic Club, of which Peary offers an account in the present book. Adverse weather conditions thwarted the attempt, but Peary was able to explore the northern coast of Ellesmere Island.
Arctic Bibliography 13226.
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