Nearest the Pole A Narrative of the Polar Expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S. S. Roosevelt, 1905–1906

By

R. E. PEARY, U. S. N.

With ninety-five photographs by the author, two maps and a frontispiece in colour by Albert Operti

New York

Doubleday, Page & Company

1907

Copyright, 1907, by

Doubleday, Page & Company

Published, April, 1907

All Rights Reserved

Including that of Translation into Foreign Languages

Including the Scandinavian

TO HER WHO HAS BEEN

MY CONSTANT AID AND INSPIRATION

AND HAS BORNE THE BRUNT

OF IT ALL

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