Northward over the Great Ice

by Peary, Robert E.

• ISBN13: 9781108041836
• ISBN10: 1108041833
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-01-01
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

Robert Edwin Peary (1856-1920), the distinguished American Arctic explorer, is usually credited as the first person to have reached the geographic North Pole, in 1909. First published in 1898, this two-volume work recounts Peary's expeditions across the interior ice-cap of Northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-7. It describes Peary's contacts with the local Inuit tribes and the valuable scientific discoveries he made in geography, and natural history. Peary also documents the discovery and conveyance to the United States of the Cape York meteorites, from which the Inuit had extracted iron, but whose whereabouts had been a secret. Volume 2 recounts Peary's later expeditions in Greenland, including a 25-month stay in which he first attempted to reach the North Pole. Peary's wife, Josephine, who accompanied him on many of his expeditions, gave birth to their daughter less than 900 miles from the Pole in 1893.

Table of Contents

North-Greenland Expedition of 1893âÇô4

Philadelphia to Cape York

House-building and hunting

Autumn and winter work

On the 'Great Ice'

On the 'Great Ice' continued

Discovery of the 'Saviksue'

Reconnaissance of Melville Bay

Meteorological and auroral notes

North-Greenland Expedition of 1894âÇô5

Boat voyage, Falcon to lodge

Boat voyage, Falcon to lodge continued

The walrus hunt

Transporting meat to the lodge

Fall ice-cap work

Fall hunting, Arctic day and night

December journey to Cape York

Return from Cape York

Winter routine

Sledge trips of the long night

Miscellanea

A week at Peterahwik

Upward ice-cap journey

The land beyond the ice-cap

The land beyond the ice-cap continued

Return ice-cap journey

After the return

Objects and results of North-Greenland expeditions of 1893 to 1895

Summer Voyages of 1896âÇô7: The 'Saviksue' or Cape York meteorites

Index

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