The North Pole

Abstract

PEARY'S narrative of the journey by which he reached the North Pole and satisfied his life's ambition cannot fail to command the respect of all who appreciate indomitable perseverance, high courage, and unfaltering devotion to an ideal. Peary cheerfullv accepted months of drudgery, for although he describes life on the march in the Arctic as a dog's life, he regards the work as a man's work; and although he met with repeated disappointment —for beating the northern record without reaching the pole he despises as an empty bauble—his devotion was at length rewarded by well-earned success. Peary—last journey will probably always be his most famous, for it accomplished one of the greatest geographical quests; but its results are probably of less real geographical value than his exploration of northern Greenland, one of the most important of Arctic achievements.

The North Pole.

By Robert E. Peary. With an introduction by Theodore Roosevelt. Pp. xii + 326. (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910.) Price 25s. net.