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holding the Champion's medal for eleven years in succession (1849-59)
Privately printed for the author at the University Press
perhaps the forerunner of the harmless
Third edition
The near fine dust-jacket has the uncommon wraparound printed band
Nearest the Pole. A Narrative of the Polar Expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S.S. Roosevelt, 1905-1906 martinique holding the Champion's medal forLondon: Hutchinson, 1907. First UK Edition. Royal 8vo (28cm) Original black buckram, image of sledge team in gilt to upper cover, lettered in gilt; pp. xx, 412; coloured frontispiece, 98 photographic plates from the author's originals (in pagination), 2 colour printed folding maps; light wear to joints and edges, very few marginal spots to the text, a fresh copy. Peary's 1905 6 attempt on the North Pole by way of Smith Sound was sponsored by the Peary