“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