Northward Over the 'Great Ice'

by Peary, Robert E.

• ISBN13: 9781108041829
• ISBN10: 1108041825
• Edition: Revised
• 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

Preface

Introduction

Reconnaissance of the Greenland Inland Ice, 1886. Objects and Results of 1886 Reconnaissance

North-Greenland Expedition of 1891âÇô2

Brooklyn to McCormick Bay

Preparing our North-Greenland home

Boat voyage to the islands

Boat and sledge trips

Through the great night

Through the great night continued

Imprisoned on the ice-cap

Preparing for the ice-cap campaign

Around Inglefield Gulf by sledge

Equipment, routine, and beginning of the white march

Over the 'Great Ice' to the northern end of Greenland

Northernmost Greenland

Eight thousand feet above the sea

Boat voyage into Inglefield Gulf

Search for Verhoeff, and homeward voyage

Meteorological notes John M. Verhoeff

Objects and results of 1891âÇô2 expedition

Appendix

Index

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