The North Pole

In the spring of 1909, at the age of fifty-three, American explorer and U.S. Navy officer Robert Edwin Peary began his landmark expedition to the North Pole. As an experienced polar explorer, he was one of the first to study and adopt Inuit survival methods — their clothing, igloos, and the use of dogs — and also involved Eskimos in his expeditions. Peary details the meticulous preparation for the journey and the colossal effort it cost him to achieve his goal.
However, «The North Pole» is not just an adventure saga about conquering the planet's northernmost point. It is first and foremost a touching story about the indomitable determination of a man whose two previous attempts had ended in failure.
Alongside Roald Amundsen's «The South Pole» this book is the culmination of centuries of human attempts to literally reach the ends of the Earth, a testament to human endurance and the desire for the unknown.