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How Peary Reached the Pole : the Personal Story of His Assistant.
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 MacMil...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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McGill-Queen's University Press
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover13;
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Plates
- HOW PEARY REACHED THE POLE
- 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
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z.