My Arctic Journal: A Year Among Ice-Fields and Eskimos, with an Account of the Great White Journey Across Greenland

240 pp. 8vo. Original green cloth, gilt titles on spine, red titles and rule on front board with gilt pattern depicting the North Star and the Big Dipper. A memoir by the wife of famous polar explorer Robert E. Peary, which shows she herself was a formidable adventurer. Arctic Bibliography 13221: "Mrs. Peary's record of the Peary Expedition, 1891-92, on which she accompanied her husband to northwest Greenland. Description of the northward voyage in 1891, the establishment of a base on McCormick Bay (77 degrees N., 68 degrees W.), the boat journeys, hunting, and daily life among the Polar Eskimos until Aug. 1892. Includes (p. 221-40) a brief account by R.E. Peary, of his first crossing of North Greenland, 1892."