How Peary reached the Pole : the personal story of his assistant / by Donald B. MacMillan.

How Peary reached the Pole : the personal story of his assistant / by Donald B. MacMillan.

By
MacMillan, Donald Baxter, 1874-1970.

Publication Date
2008, 1934

Publication Information
Montréal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press,

Physical Description
305 p., [14] p. of plates : ill., map, ports.

Subject Term
Explorers -- United States -- Biography.

Geographic Term
North Pole.
 
Arctic regions.
 
Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration.
 
North Pole -- Discovery and exploration.

Summary
How Peary Reached the Pole allows us to see Arctic landscapes and Inughuit culture as MacMillan experienced them, providing a perspective from which to consider the northern environmental and cultural issues that continue to concern individuals and nations today, one hundred years after Peary's historic expedition.

Language
English

ISBN
9780773534506

General Note
Includes index.


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