The North Pole
Author | : Robert Edwin Peary |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robert Edwin Peary |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Karen Clemens Warrick |
Publisher | : Enslow Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780766019331 |
Describes the history of man's attempts to reach the North Pole, as well as the life and career of the Arctic explorer Robert Peary, who is credited with reaching the North Pole in 1909.
Author | : Ellis Roxburgh |
Publisher | : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2015-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1482442345 |
When explorer Robert Peary returned from reaching the North Pole in 1909his third attempthe was shocked to learn Dr. Frederick Cook claimed to have reached it nearly a whole year before him. Both mens assertions are now in doubt! That doesnt make this exciting account of the race to the North Pole any less fascinating. Readers will immerse themselves in the world of Arctic exploration and all that entailed at the beginning of the 20th century, including adopting Inuit customs. Quotations from each explorer, a timeline, and photographs of the people and places involved in this intense rivalry will cast light on the controversial competition.
Author | : Laurie Rozakis |
Publisher | : Blackbirch Press, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781567110661 |
A biography of the two explorers--one white, one African American--who discovered the North Pole in 1909.
Author | : Robert Edwin Peary |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 78 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Arctic regions |
ISBN | : |
Collection of articles from Nash's Magazine describing Peary's journey to the North Pole in 1909.
Author | : Robert Edwin Peary |
Publisher | : London : Hutchinson & Company |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Arctic regions |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Christopher Dwyer |
Publisher | : Chelsea House Pub |
Total Pages | : 111 |
Release | : 1992-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780791013168 |
This is a story about man's quest to know -- his world, his universe, and ultimately himself.
Author | : Bruce Henderson |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2006-02-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393344665 |
"Nail-biting true adventure."--Kirkus Reviews In 1909, two men laid rival claims to this crown jewel of exploration. A century later, the battle rages still. This book is about one of the most enduring and vitriolic feuds in the history of exploration. "What a consummate cur he is," said Robert Peary of Frederick Cook in 1911. Cook responded, "Peary has stooped to every crime from rape to murder." They had started out as friends and shipmates, with Cook, a doctor, accompanying Peary, a civil engineer, on an expedition to northern Greenland in 1891. Peary's leg was shattered in an accident, and without Cook's care he might never have walked again. But by the summer of 1909, all the goodwill was gone. Peary said he had reached the Pole in September 1909; Cook scooped him, presenting evidence that he had gotten there in 1908. Bruce Henderson makes a wonderful narrative out of the claims and counterclaims, and he introduces fascinating scientific and psychological evidence to put the appalling details of polar travel in a new context.
Author | : Bruce Henderson |
Publisher | : Paw Prints |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-10-20 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781439566756 |
Chronicles the nearly century-long feud between rival explorers Robert Peary and Frederick Cook, both of whom, in spite of an early friendship, both claimed to have reached the North Pole first, in an account the presents scientific and psychological evidence from their polar expeditions. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
Author | : Robert E. Peary |
Publisher | : Rarebooksclub.com |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781770450295 |
Excerpt: ...end to end, on edge, to form an egg-shaped ring about the man in the center, who deftly joints and fits them with his snow knife. The second row is placed on top of the first, but sloping slightly inward; and the following rows are carried up in a gradually ascending spiral, each successive layer leaning inward a little more, and each block held in place by the blocks on either side, until finally an aperture is left in the top to be filled with one block. This block is then properly shaped by the man inside the igloo; he pushes it up endwise through the aperture, turns it over by reaching through the top, lowers it into place, and chips off with his knife until it fits the hole like the keystone of an arch, firmly keying the structure, whose general proportions are not unlike those of a beehive. 174 A hole just large enough for a man to crawl through is cut close to the bottom on one side, and any superfluous snow inside the igloo is thrown out through this hole. In the rear or larger end, the sloping floor is leveled off to form a bed platform, and in front of this the floor is dug down a foot or more for a standing space and a place for the cookers. Then the sleeping gear and cooking outfit are passed into the igloo, and, after the dogs have been fed and tethered for the night, the members of the party enter, the opening at the bottom is closed by a large block of snow, the edges of which have been shaped and chipped by a saw knife to make a tight joint, and everything is ready for the night. After the cookers are lighted, the igloo is soon comparatively warm, and in the arctic regions, when men are tired out from a long march, they generally fall asleep easily. Insomnia is not one of the arctic annoyances. We never carry alarm clocks in the field to arouse us in the morning. The first man who has had his sleep out looks at his watch, and if it is time to be on the march again, he wakes the others. After breakfast we break camp and are out...