78/ 913 [(Ant)arctica]. Peary, R.E. Die Entdeckung des Nordpols. German transl. G. Uhl. Berlin, W. Susserott, 1910, 1st German ed., XXVIII,372,(16)p., frontisp. portrait, fold. col. map in rear pocket, num. photogr. plates, orig. pict. cl.

- Fine copy.

= Cf. Arctic Bibliography 13226; Ricks p.169; Henze IV, p.62ff. Peary (1856-1920), civil-engineer for the US-Marine, the first man to reach the North-Pole, also travelled the North of Greenland and was the first to proof that Greenland is an island. Account of the first two attempts by Peary to reach the North Pole; in his third attempt in 1909 he was finally successful.