“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

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