Pearys Arctic Quest

Author : Susan Kaplan
Publisher : Down East Books
ISBN 13 : 1608936449
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peary's Arctic Quest written by Susan Kaplan and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Daniel E. Harmon
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0791064409
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robert Peary and the Quest for the North Pole written by Daniel E. Harmon and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Kathleen Olmstead
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402760600
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Matthew Henson written by Kathleen Olmstead and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Fergus Fleming
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802197531
Total Pages : 699 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ninety Degrees North written by Fergus Fleming and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 699 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Barrow’s Boys offers a fascinating look at the exploration of the Arctic in the nineteenth century. Named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, the Seattle Times, Publishers Weekly, and Time In the nineteenth century, theories about the North Pole ran rampant. Was it an open sea? Was it a portal to new worlds within the globe? Or was it just a wilderness of ice? When Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in 1845, explorers decided it was time to find out. In scintillating detail, Ninety Degrees North tells of the vying governments (including the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and Austria-Hungary) and fantastic eccentrics (from Swedish balloonists to Italian aristocrats) who, despite their heroic failures, often achieved massive celebrity as they battled shipwreck, starvation, and sickness to reach the top of the world. Drawing on unpublished archives and long-forgotten journals, Fergus Fleming recounts this riveting saga of humankind’s search for the ultimate goal with consummate craftsmanship and wit. “Barely a page goes by without the loss of a crew member or a body part . . . Fleming [is] a marvelous teller of tales—and a superb thumbnail biographer.” —The Observer “A fable of men driven to extremes by the lust for knowledge as epic as a Greek myth.” —Time

Author : Pierre Berton
Publisher : Anchor Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385673620
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Arctic Grail written by Pierre Berton and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Robert Edwin Peary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The North Pole written by Robert Edwin Peary and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeri Ferris
Publisher : First Avenue Editions
ISBN 13 : 9780876145074
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arctic Explorer written by Jeri Ferris and published by First Avenue Editions. This book was released on 1990-02-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the Black explorer who discovered the North Pole.

Author : Robert Edwin Peary
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465553282
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The North Pole: Its Discovery in 1909 Under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club written by Robert Edwin Peary and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1986 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It may not be inapt to liken the attainment of the North Pole to the winning of a game of chess, in which all the various moves leading to a favorable conclusion had been planned in advance, long before the actual game began. It was an old game for me—a game which I had been playing for twenty-three years, with varying fortunes. Always, it is true, I had been beaten, but with every defeat came fresh knowledge of the game, its intricacies, its difficulties, its subtleties, and with every fresh attempt success came a trifle nearer; what had before appeared either impossible, or, at the best, extremely dubious, began to take on an aspect of possibility, and, at last, even of probability. Every defeat was analyzed as to its causes in all their bearings, until it became possible to believe that those causes could in future be guarded against and that, with a fair amount of good fortune, the losing game of nearly a quarter of a century could be turned into one final, complete success. It is true that with this conclusion many well informed and intelligent persons saw fit to differ. But many others shared my views and gave without stint their sympathy and their help, and now, in the end, one of my greatest unalloyed pleasures is to know that their confidence, subjected as it was to many trials, was not misplaced, that their trust, their belief in me and in the mission to which the best years of my life have been given, have been abundantly justified. But while it is true that so far as plan and method are concerned the discovery of the North Pole may fairly be likened to a game of chess, there is, of course, this obvious difference: in chess, brains are matched against brains. In the quest of the Pole it was a struggle of human brains and persistence against the blind, brute forces of the elements of primeval matter, acting often under laws and impulses almost unknown or but little understood by us, and thus many times seemingly capricious, freaky, not to be foretold with any degree of certainty. For this reason, while it was possible to plan, before the hour of sailing from New York, the principal moves of the attack upon the frozen North, it was not possible to anticipate all of the moves of the adversary. Had this been possible, my expedition of 1905-1906, which established the then "farthest north" record of 87° 6´, would have reached the Pole. But everybody familiar with the records of that expedition knows that its complete success was frustrated by one of those unforeseen moves of our great adversary—in that a season of unusually violent and continued winds disrupted the polar pack, separating me from my supporting parties, with insufficient supplies, so that, when almost within striking distance of the goal, it was necessary to turn back because of the imminent peril of starvation. When victory seemed at last almost within reach, I was blocked by a move which could not possibly have been foreseen, and which, when I encountered it, I was helpless to meet. And, as is well known, I and those with me were not only checkmated but very nearly lost our lives as well. But all that is now as a tale that is told. This time it is a different and perhaps a more inspiring story, though the records of gallant defeat are not without their inspiration. And the point which it seems fit to make in the beginning is that success crowned the efforts of years because strength came from repeated defeats, wisdom from earlier error, experience from inexperience, and determination from them all.

Author : DR. FREDERICK A. COOK
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book MY ATTAINMENT OF THE POLE written by DR. FREDERICK A. COOK and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Dodson Wade
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780766032866
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amazing Arctic Explorer Matthew Henson written by Mary Dodson Wade and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find out about Matthew Henson's life and his quest to reach the North Pole with Robert Peary.