The Polar Passion: The Quest for the North Pole, with Selections from Arctic Journals

303 pp. 12 1/8 x 8 7/8. 80 pages of contemporary drawings & photos. "This unique book contains the rare journals--most of them long out of print--of explorers and adventurers who, for a thousand years, fought through every imaginable peril to try to be the first at the North Pole."--jacket