My Arctic Journal: A Year Among Ice-Fields and Eskimos
Wife of self-proclaimed North Pole discoverer Robert Edwin Peary, Josephine Peary was the first woman apart from the Inuit to take part in an Arctic expedition. My Arctic Journal, unavailable for nearly a century, is Peary's memoir of the time she spent, from June of 1891 to August of 1892, accompanying her husband and his exploration party across the northernmost expanses of Greenland. Peary recounts in detail the hardships of life in the frozen North, and describes at length the customs of the Inuit natives, among whom she spent a great deal of time. She also tells of her experiences hunting near the top of the world, and gives her impressi…
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Weitere Autoren: Peary, Robert E. (Solist) / Bryce, Robert M. (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-0-8154-1198-7
- EAN: 9780815411987
- Produktnummer: 9687673
- Verlag: Cooper Square Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 312 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.6 cm x D2.0 cm 354 g
- Auflage: Cooper Square P
- Gewicht: 354
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