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Author : Daniel E. Harmon
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Arctic regions
ISBN : 9780791064405
Examines the life and adventures of American explorer Robert Peary, focusing on his attempts to be the first man to reach the North Pole in the early twentieth century.
Author : Christopher Dwyer
Publisher : Chelsea House Pub
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0791013162
This is a story about man's quest to know -- his world, his universe, and ultimately himself.
Author : Robert E. Peary
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : Travel
ISBN : EAN:8596547014607
The North Pole is a book by Robert E. Peary. It presents the discovery of The North Pole in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club in colorful fashion.
Author : Susan Kaplan,Genevieve LeMoine
Publisher : Down East Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781608936441
This richly illustrated book takes a different angle on Robert E. Peary’s North Pole expedition. By shifting the focus away from the unanswerable question of whether he truly reached 90º North Latitude, the authors shed light on equally important stories and discoveries that arose as a result of the infamous expedition. Peary's Arctic Quest ventures beyond the well-cited story of Peary’s expedition and uncovers the truth about race relations, womens’ scientific contributions, and climate change that are still relevant today. Readers will gain a greater appreciation for Peary’s methodical and creative mind, the Inughuit’s significant contributions to Arctic exploration, and the impact of Western expedition activity on the Inughuit community. The volume will also feature artifacts, drawings, and historic photographs with informative captions to tell little-known stories about Peary’s 1908-1909 North Pole expedition.
Author : Kathleen Olmstead
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1402760604
African American explorer Matthew Henson had been traveling with Robert E. Peary and his team in the arctic by dog sled for weeks. The temperature was almost sixty degrees below zero. After years of trying to reach the North Pole, would their quest end because of frigid conditions? And who would receive acclaim for being the first person to accomplish such a difficult goal? Henson was born not long after the Civil War, when life in the United States, especially for African Americans, was changing quickly. As a young man, he toured the world while working on a boat, where he experienced freedom and kindness from the captain, but faced racism from crew members as well as other people on shore. After leaving seafaring behind, Henson was to meet Lieutenant Robert E. Peary, a man who would alter the course of his life forever. He would accompany Peary on dangerous, exciting expeditions to Nicaragua, Northern Greenland, and finally the perilous North Pole. Book jacket.
Author : Pierre Berton
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385673624
Scores of nineteenth-century expeditions battled savage cold, relentless ice and winter darkness in pursuit of two great prizes: the quest for the elusive Passage linking the Atlantic and the Pacific and the international race to reach the North Pole. Pierre Berton's #1 best-selling book brings to life the great explorers: the pious and ambitious Edward Parry, the flawed hero John Franklin, ruthless Robert Peary and the cool Norwegian Roald Amundsen. He also credits the Inuit, whose tracking and hunting skills saved the lives of the adventurers and their men countless times. These quests are peopled with remarkable figures full of passion and eccentricity. They include Charles Hall, an obscure printer who abandoned family and business to head to a frozen world of which he knew nothing; John Ross, whose naval career ended when he spotted a range of mountains that didn't exist; Frederick Cook, who faked reaching the North Pole; and Jane Franklin, who forced an expensive search for her missing husband upon a reluctant British government. Pierre Berton, who won his first Governor General's award for The Mysterious North, here again gives us an important and fascinating history that reads like a novel as he examines the historic events of the golden age of Arctic exploration.
Author : Kristin Petrie
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1596797460
This book describes the life and accomplishments of Robert Peary, the American explorer who reached the North Pole in 1909.
Author : Robert Edwin Peary
Publisher : Cooper Square Publishers
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015060083337
Was Robert Peary the first man to reach the North Pole, as he claimed, on April 6, 1909? Rival explorer Frederick A. Cook called Peary's announcement a hoax, a conspiracy to fame supported by Peary's moneyed financiers.
Author : Walter Lord
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781453238455
Explorer Robert E. Peary’s quest for the North Pole—a true Arctic adventure from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of A Night to Remember. On March 1, 1909, only 413 miles of formidable ice separated Robert E. Peary from realizing his lifelong dream of becoming the first man to set foot on the North Pole. On that dark morning on Canada’s Ellesmere Island, it was cold enough to freeze a bottle of brandy. The ice looked solid enough, but it sat atop seawater—and shifted violently according to the whims of the ocean below. Peary was used to the conditions—he’d barely survived them just three years before when he first tried, and failed, to reach the earth’s northernmost point. But this time around, no amount of peril could dissuade Peary and his party from their expedition. With a cry of “Forward, march!” the journey of a lifetime began. Written with thrilling detail and heart-pounding suspense by the author of Day of Infamy and other bestselling histories, Peary to the Pole is the definitive account of one man’s trek through some of the world’s most treacherous terrain, in search of adventure, discovery, and immortality, a classic for readers of books like In the Kingdom of Ice or The Last Place on Earth.
Author : Wally Herbert
Publisher : New York : Anchor Books
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Science
ISBN : 0385413556
Recounts the rivalry between Commander Robert E. Peary and Dr. Frederick Cook, who both claimed to have been the first to reach the North Pole, and evaluates their claims
Author : Robert Edwin Peary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Arctic regions
ISBN : UOM:39015035909475
Collection of articles from Nash's Magazine describing Peary's journey to the North Pole in 1909.
Author : Josepha Sherman
Publisher : Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781612289472
The Arctic, the far, frozen north, can be a very dangerous place for people to visit. The Arctic is almost always bitter cold, with temperatures that can go far below –50ºF and be in total darkness for four months out of a year. Terrible storms sweep across the ice and snow, and great crevasses, perilous openings in the ice, can swallow the unlucky traveler. By the early 1900s, many expeditions had tried to reach the farthest point north, the North Pole, but all of them had failed. Many explorers had died. Tales spread that no one could reach the North Pole. They warned that the land was cursed. But in the early twentieth century, two men decided to brave the Arctic again. They were Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson. And they were determined to do what no one had ever done. They were going to reach the North Pole.
Author : Karen Clemens Warrick
Publisher : Enslow Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0766019330
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 : Eric Walters
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780143181514
The Pole is Eric Walters’s powerful fictionalized retelling of Robert Peary’s 1909 expedition to the North Pole aboard The Roosevelt, as experienced by a young cabin boy named Danny, away from home and at sea for the very first time. This highly adventurous tale features Canadian hero Robert Bartlett, captain of The Roosevelt (featured in Walters’s mega-bestselling Trapped in Ice), and Matthew Henson, Peary’s assistant and the first African-American Arctic explorer.
Author : Thomas D. Davies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0914025201
This book contains the definitive analysis of the navigation and achievement of the discovery of the North Pole by Robert Peary and Matthew Hensen in April of 1909. The report is the work of members of the Foundation for the Promotion of the Art of Navigation. It was commissioned by the National Geographic Society in 1989 to resolve the controversies surrounding this achievement once and for all. "I consider this the end of a historic controversy and the confirmation of due justice to a great explorer." - Gilbert M. Grosvenor, President National Geographic Society