In Arctic Seas: The Voyage of the 'Kite' with the Peary Expedition, Together with a Transcript of the Log of the 'Kite'

vii, 524 pp. 8vo. Original grey cloth, gilt titles, silver Arctic motif on front board. List of Peary Relief Expedition members follows text. Arctic Bibliography 8485: "The expedition of 1891-92, sponsored by the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, was under command of Peary until he left the ship, then under Prof. A. Heilprin. The personnel included zoologists and botanists, with the authors of this narrative as surgeons. They give here an account of the Kite's passage via West Greenland ports to McCormick Bay in Murchison Sound, North Greenland, and return, June-Aug. 1891; with informative details on Polar Eskimos' utensils, tools, sledges and clothes, and on sights along West Greenland coast. Includes notes on ice in Baffin Bay... with the addition of a log of the second, or relief expedition of the Kite, July 4 - Sept. 22, 1892; a narrative of the relief party's activities at McCormick Bay and on the inland ice; of Mrs. Peary's winter; and results of Peary's trans-Greenland march."