Transcriber’s Note:

The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

NEAREST THE POLE

THE GEOGRAPHICAL LIBRARY

The Opening of Tibet, By Perceval Landon

Flashlights in the Jungle, By C. G. Schillings

The Passing of Korea, By Homer B. Hulbert

Fighting the Polar Ice, By Anthony Fiala

Nearest the Pole, By R. E. Peary, U. S. N.

“NEAREST THE POLE”
COMMANDER ROBERT E. PEARY PLANTING THE AMERICAN FLAG LATITUDE 87° 6′, APRIL 21, 1906
Painted by Albert Operti, from photographs

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

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

Doubleday, Page & Company

Published, April, 1907

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

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