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    Category Arctic;
    Author Peary, Robert E (Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt)
    Title THE NORTH POLE: With an introduction by Theodore Roosevelt. One hundred and sixteen illustrations from photographs.
    Publishing Information London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1910.
    Description 1st UK Edition; xii, 326 pages, illustrated, 116 illustrations including 4 photogravures, 16 special plates, 1 folding map. Original covers with polar bear to spine and rear cover. Shelf wear, bumped, prelims show ghosting as usual, pages 105/107 has been poorly cut at some stage, contents clean, closed repaired tear to margins of large folding map (not affecting map) neatly repaired with archive tape, this map is now laid in. A nice copy. American explorer Robert Peary's interesting account of his expedition from 1908-1909 to the North Pole, the expedition in which he claimed to have reached the Pole. This was a controversial claim and was widely debated alongside Frederick Cook competing claim. The debate continues to this day, with some thinking that he simply just came within a few miles of the Pole.
    Price £100.00
    Keywords qpolarq, polar, Arctic, expedition. S1-Arc
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