viii, 404 pp. 8vo. Original blue patterned cloth, gilt stamped titles, maps on endpapers. Illustrated with black & white photographs, including one picturing Ernest Shackleton, Robert Peary, and Roald Amundsen. A biography of Admiral Robert E. Peary, one of several arctic adventurers during the late 19th and early 20th century. Peary was considered for about 80 years (1909-1989) to be the first to reach the North Pole (his claim was later disproved by the leader of a British expedition now widely accepted as the first to actually reach it).
