Northward Over the Great Ice: A Narrative of Life and work Along the Shores and upon the Interior Ice-Cap of Northern Greenland in the Years 1886 and 1891-1897, etc

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 discov...