pp. xx, 411, 95 b/w photographs, two coloured folding maps at rep, and coloured frontispiece, attractive bookplate on front pastedown, upper edge gilt, embossed gilt vignette on front board, gilt title on spine, green cloth, " An account of Peary's expedition to Ellesmere Island and crossing the ice to the Arctic Basin, returning by way…
American naval officer and Arctic explorer Robert Edwin Peary led the expedition, often credited with this controversial claim of first reaching the North Pole in 1909.