The North Pole: Its Discovery in 1909 Under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club

by Peary, Robert E.; Roosevelt, Theodore; Bryce, Robert M.; Roosevelt, Theodore; Bryce, Robert M.

• ISBN13: 9780815411383
• ISBN10: 0815411383
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Natl Book Network

Summary

Was Robert Peary the first man to reach the North Pole, as he claimed, on April 6, 1909? Rival explorer Frederick A. Cook called Peary's announcement a hoax, a conspiracy to fame supported by Peary's moneyed financiers.

Table of Contents

Introduction	v
Foreword	xxxvii
Preface	xxxix
The Plan	1	(10)
Preparations	11	(14)
The Start	25	(9)
Up to Cape York	34	(8)
Welcome from the Eskimos	42	(11)
An Arctio Oasis	53	(10)
Odd Customs of an Odd People	63	(9)
Getting Recruits	72	(7)
A Walrus Hunt	79	(9)
Knocking at the Gateway to the Pole	88	(9)
Close Quarters with the Ice	97	(9)
The Ice Fight Goes On	106	(11)
Cape Sheridan at Last	117	(9)
In Winter Quarters	126	(8)
The Autumn Work	134	(9)
The Biggest Game in the Arctic	143	(8)
Musk-oxen at Last	151	(11)
The Long Night	162	(10)
The Roosevelt's Narrow Escape	172	(10)
Christmas on the Roosevelt	182	(11)
Arctic Ice Sledging as it Really Is	193	(8)
Essentials that Brought Success	201	(12)
Off Across the Frozen Sea	213	(8)
The First Open Water	221	(9)
Some of My Eskimos Lose their Nerve	230	(10)
Borup's Farthest North	240	(8)
Good By to Marvin	248	(7)
We Break all Records	255	(9)
Bartlett Reaches 87° 47'	264	(8)
The Final Spurt Begun	272	(8)
Only One Day from the Pole	280	(7)
We Reach the Pole	287	(15)
Good By to the Pole	302	(12)
Back to Land Again	314	(11)
Last Days at Cape Sheridan	325	(12)
Appendix I	337	(13)
Appendix II	350	(13)
Appendix III	363