A Tenderfoot with Peary

A Tenderfoot with Peary

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xv, [2], 317 pp. 8vo. Original blue cloth, gilt titles and decorations. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece, 29 photographic plates (comprising 46 total illustrations) in text, fold-out map follows text. 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."