This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index
CONTENTS
Introduction
Foreword
I The Plan
II Preparations
III The Start
IV Up to Cape York
V Welcome from the Eskimos
VI An Arctic Oasis
VII Odd Customs of an Odd People
VIII Getting Recruits
IX A Walrus Hunt
X Knocking at the Gateway to the Pole
XI Close Quarters with the Ice
XII The Ice Fight Goes On
XIII Cape Sheridan at Last
XIV In Winter Quarters
XV The Autumn Work
XVI The Biggest Game in the Arctic
XVII Musk-oxen at Last
XVIII The Long Night
XIX The Roosevelt's Narrow Escape
XX Christmas on the Roosevelt
XXI Arctic Ice Sledging as it Really Is
XXII Essentials that Brought Success
XXIII Off Across the Frozen Sea
XXIV The First Open Water
XXV Some of My Eskimos Lose their Nerve
XXVI Borup's Farthest North
XXVII Good-By to Marvin
XXVIII We Break all Records
XXIX Bartlett Reaches 87° 47´
XXX The Final Spurt Begun
XXXI Only One Day from the Pole
XXXII We Reach the Pole
XXXIII Good-By to the Pole
XXXIV Back to Land Again
XXXV Last Days at Cape Sheridan
Appendix I
Appendix II
Appendix III
About the Author
"Robert Edwin Peary, Sr. (1856 - 1920) was an American explorer who claimed to have led the first expedition, on April 6, 1909, to reach the geographic North Pole." --Wikipedia
