Nearest the Pole: A Narrative of the Polar Expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S. S. Roosevelt, 1905-1906
Author(s):
Peary, Robert E.
Copyright: 1907, Doubleday, Page & Co, NY
Specifications: 1907 Doubleday, Page & Co, NY, 1st, thick 8vo, pp.xx, 411, color frontis w/ tissue guard, 90 bw photos, 2 color fldg maps, gilt-dec cloth
Condition: cloth w/ pencil inscription on ffep, tight, maps w/ no tears, near fine
Peary’s 1905 attempt at the Pole departed from northern Ellesmere Island. He made a disputed claim of reaching 87º06’, a new ‘furthest north’. He then returned to Ellesmere and continued along the western shore from which he made his sighting of the non-existent Crocker Land. An important work in the annals of polar exploration. A very nice copy.
AB 57770.