Nearest the Pole. A Narrative of the Polar Expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S.S. Roosevelt, 1905-1906 martinique With 20 coloured woodcut plates

With 20 coloured woodcut plates

perhaps the forerunner of the harmless

The near fine dust-jacket has the uncommon wraparound printed band

No old inscriptions

a light tale”

Nearest the Pole. A Narrative of the Polar Expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S.S. Roosevelt, 1905-1906 martinique With 20 coloured woodcut platesLondon: Hutchinson, 1907. First UK Edition. Royal 8vo (28cm) Original black buckram, image of sledge team in gilt to upper cover, lettered in gilt; pp. xx, 412; coloured frontispiece, 98 photographic plates from the author's originals (in pagination), 2 colour printed folding maps; light wear to joints and edges, very few marginal spots to the text, a fresh copy. Peary's 1905 6 attempt on the North Pole by way of Smith Sound was sponsored by the Peary