Nearest the pole
by Robert E. Peary
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About this eBook
- Author
- Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920
- Title
- Nearest the Pole a narrative of the polar expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S.S. Roosevelt, 1905-1906
- Original Publication
- United States: Doubleday, Page,1907.
- Credits
- Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- G: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation
- Subject
- Arctic regions
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 68906
- Release Date
- September 4, 2022
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Nearest the Pole A Narrative of the Polar Expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S. S. Roosevelt, 1905–1906
- 2.INTRODUCTION
- 3.ANNOUNCEMENT
- 4.CONTENTS
- 5.ILLUSTRATIONS — CHAPTER I FROM NEW YORK TO ETAH
- 6.CHAPTER II ETAH TO CAPE SHERIDAN
- 7.CHAPTER III AUTUMN AT CAPE SHERIDAN
- 8.CHAPTER IV THROUGH THE “GREAT NIGHT” ON THE SHORES OF THE CENTRAL POLAR SEA
- 9.CHAPTER V SHERIDAN TO THE BIG LEAD
- 10.CHAPTER VI FROM THE “BIG LEAD” TO 87° 6′ N. LAT.
- 11.CHAPTER VII FROM 87° 6′ TO THE GREENLAND COAST
- 12.CHAPTER VIII ALONG THE GREENLAND COAST TO THE ROOSEVELT
- 13.CHAPTER IX WESTWARD OVER THE GLACIAL FRINGE OF GRANT LAND
- 14.CHAPTER X WESTWARD OVER THE GLACIAL FRINGE OF GRANT LAND (CONTINUED)
- 15.CHAPTER XI THE RETURN FROM “FARTHEST WEST”
- 16.CHAPTER XII SHERIDAN TO ETAH
- 17.CHAPTER XIII ETAH TO NEW YORK
- 18.CHAPTER XIV THE PEARY ARCTIC CLUB — 1898–1902 — 1904–190–(?) — MONTHLY MEANS OF BAROMETRIC READINGS AT CAPE SHERIDAN, 1905–1906 — MONTHLY MEANS OF THERMOMETRIC READINGS AT CAPE SHERIDAN, 1905–1906
- 19.CHAPTER XV REPORT OF COMMANDER PEARY, ON WORK DONE IN THE ARCTIC IN 1898–1902 — 1898–1899 — 1900–1901 — 1901–1902 — A New Caribou from Ellesmere Land [4]
- 20.CHAPTER XVI THE ARCTIC S. S. “ROOSEVELT”
- 21.CHAPTER XVII MY ESKIMOS [5] — CENSUS OF THE SMITH SOUND ESKIMOS [6] SEPTEMBER, 1906 — SUMMARY
- 22.INDEX
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