A Tenderfoot with Peary
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xv, [2], 317 pp. 8vo. Original navy blue cloth, gilt titles and decorations, color illustration mounted on front board. Color frontispiece, seven photographic plates in text. Other offerings mention a fold-out map and a larger number of photographs (not present here), indicating that this may be a later reprint. The first account by a crew member of Peary's 1908 voyage to the North Pole by way of Greenland aboard the Roosevelt, written by the youngest member of the expedition. Arctic Bibliography 2022: "Popular account of the Peary Expedition, 1908-1909, by its youngest American member. Includes account of the author's participation, with one of the supporting parties, in the first part of the polar march, and in a sledge trip along the North Greeland coast with D.B. MacMillan."