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

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Complete in two volumes: pp. lxxx, 521; xiv, 625. Bound in blue/gilt cloth, TEG, frontispiece portraits, front board silver vignettes still bright, spine extremities worn, some uncut pages, previous owner’s attractive bookplate (E.C.Oakes), in both both volumes. Arctic Bibliography 13231

“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. Volume 2 deals with his later journeys, including a two-year stay trying to reach the North Pole, during which his wife gave birth to a daughter. The volume also documents Peary’s summer voyages in 1896–7.”

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Original Title 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
Published Date 1898
Book Condition Good
Jacket Condition No dustjacket
Binding Hardcover
Size larger 8vo
Place of Publication London
Edition First edition
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Complete in two volumes: pp. lxxx, 521; xiv, 625. Bound in blue/gilt cloth, TEG, frontispiece portraits, front board silver vignettes still bright, spine extremities worn, some uncut pages, previous owner’s attractive bookplate (E.C.Oakes), in both both volumes. Arctic Bibliography 13231

“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. Volume 2 deals with his later journeys, including a two-year stay trying to reach the North Pole, during which his wife gave birth to a daughter. The volume also documents Peary’s summer voyages in 1896–7.”

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