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Nearest the Pole

by Robert E. (Robert Edwin) Peary

EN·~8 hours·24 chapters

Chapters

24 total

Transcriber’s Note:

0:34

Nearest the Pole A Narrative of the Polar Expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S. S. Roosevelt, 1905–1906

0:25

INTRODUCTION

7:10

ANNOUNCEMENT

1:28

CONTENTS

0:45

ILLUSTRATIONS

3:57

CHAPTER I FROM NEW YORK TO ETAH

31:43

CHAPTER II ETAH TO CAPE SHERIDAN

23:44

CHAPTER III AUTUMN AT CAPE SHERIDAN

20:35

CHAPTER IV THROUGH THE “GREAT NIGHT” ON THE SHORES OF THE CENTRAL POLAR SEA

21:53

Description

With ninety-five photographs by the author, two maps and a frontispiece in colour by Albert Operti.

Details

Full title

Nearest the Pole a narrative of the polar expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S.S. Roosevelt, 1905-1906

Language

Duration

~8 hours (474K characters)

Series

The geographical library

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

United States: Doubleday, Page,1907.

Credits

Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2022-09-04

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Arctic regions

About the author

Robert E. (Robert Edwin) Peary

1856–1920

Best known for his long, difficult Arctic expeditions, this American explorer spent years pushing farther north than almost anyone of his era. His journeys helped shape public fascination with the North Pole, even as later generations debated his most famous claim.

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