The North Pole

In the spring of 1909, at the age of fifty-three, American explorer and U.S. Navy officer Robert Edwin Peary set out to conquer the North Pole. He was an experienced polar explorer who was one of the first to study the survival methods of the Inuit—clothing, igloos, dogs—and to include Eskimos in his expeditions. Peary faithfully describes the preparations for the journey, as well as the efforts it took to reach his goal.

But The North Pole is more than an adventure saga about reaching the northernmost point of the planet. It is, above all, a story of the determination of a man whose two previous attempts ended in failure.

Together with Roald Amundsen’s The South Pole, this book is the culmination of man’s centuries-long attempts to reach—literally—the ends of the Earth.