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How Peary Reached the Pole
The Personal Story of His Assistant
- 368 pages
- English
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eBook - ePub
How Peary Reached the Pole
The Personal Story of His Assistant
About this book
In 1934 Donald B. MacMillan, an accomplished explorer, wrote about his early career as a member of Robert E. Peary's 1908-09 North Pole Expedition. Now available for the first time since its original publication, this expanded edition of How Peary Reached the Pole features a biography of MacMillan and thirty-six images from his hand-tinted lantern slides. MacMillan used the journal he kept during the expedition to provide an intimate view of day-to-day activities and relationships with other members of the party, detailing how he learned to drive dog teams, camp in sub-zero temperatures, and travel safely across the ice-covered Polar Sea. MacMillan's experiences and deep admiration for Peary's methods, leadership, and many accomplishments make for fascinating reading. How Peary Reached the Pole allows us to see Arctic landscapes and Inughuit culture as MacMillan experienced them, providing a perspective from which to consider the northern environmental and cultural issues that continue to concern individuals and nations today, one hundred years after Peary's historic expedition.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Foreword
- 1 Farthest North in 1906
- 2 Heading North in 1908
- 3 Good-Byes at Sydney
- 4 From Parry to Peary
- 5 Labrador
- 6 Davis Strait and Baffin Bay
- 7 The Peary Eskimos
- 8 Etah and Walrus-Hunting
- 9 North to the Polar Sea
- 10 Arctic Travel
- 11 The Arctic Night
- 12 Surveying in Grant Land
- 13 Cape Columbia
- 14 Eskimo Companions
- 15 Arctic Technique
- 16 Planning for the Dash
- 17 Out Over the Sea Ice
- 18 Frozen Feet
- 19 Back to the Roosevelt
- 20 To Cape Morris Jesup
- 21 Peary Back from the Pole
- 22 What Can Be Done with Dogs
- 23 Greely’s Old Camp at Fort Conger
- 24 Back to the Roosevelt Again
- 25 Wild Life of the Arctic
- 26 Dr. Cook and his North Pole
- Appendix
- Photograph Credits
- Index
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Yes, you can access How Peary Reached the Pole by Donald MacMillan,Donald B. Macmillan,Susan A. Kaplan,Genevieve M. Lemoine in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & World History. We have over 1.5 million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.