Nearest the pole. A narrative of the polar expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S.S. Roosevelt 1905-1906
de Peary, Robert E
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New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1907. First edition, large 8vo, pp. xx, 411, [1], 2 folding maps printed in color at the back, color frontispiece and 90 illustrations (mostly from photographs) on rectos and versos of 32 plates; some light rubbing, else a near fine copy in original pictorial green cloth gilt, t.e.g. "Contains an account of the Roosevelt's passage to Cape Sheridan, Ellesmere Island, the march on the ice of the Arctic Basin to 87 degrees, 6 minutes north and return, via the northwest coast of Greenland; a sledge journey along the northern coast of Ellesmere Island, and the return of the ship through Robeson Channel-Smith Sound..." (Arctic Bibliography), and summaries of earlier Peary expeditions. Contains much on the native peoples. Arctic Bibliography 13226.
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- Nearest the pole. A narrative of the polar expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S.S. Roosevelt 1905-1906
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- Peary, Robert E
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- Usado
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- 1
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- Doubleday, Page & Co
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- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1907
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- North Pole , Polar , ,
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