A TENDERFOOT WITH PEARY THE COMMANDER. Photograph by Edward Fraser Carson, 1909. TO THE MEMORY OF ROSS MARVIN PREFACE 4 4 IP LEASE write me a preface, said the boy, 1 if only of a hundred lines he is only a boy. Yet, like the youth of all ages, he is full of the spirit of adventure, possibly inherited from his forebears, who saw duty, in the army, or as pioneers on the far western plains. When our gallant little army fought its way across the continent to the Pacific coast, in the days now gone forever, it was regarded as ...
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A TENDERFOOT WITH PEARY THE COMMANDER. Photograph by Edward Fraser Carson, 1909. TO THE MEMORY OF ROSS MARVIN PREFACE 4 4 IP LEASE write me a preface, said the boy, 1 if only of a hundred lines he is only a boy. Yet, like the youth of all ages, he is full of the spirit of adventure, possibly inherited from his forebears, who saw duty, in the army, or as pioneers on the far western plains. When our gallant little army fought its way across the continent to the Pacific coast, in the days now gone forever, it was regarded as the school of heroic endeavor for the youth of our nation. As well it might be, for the highway from east to west now happily spanned by the rails of commerce and peace was for more than a hundred years a trail of blood and death. And following back the course of the pioneers, it takes but a short stretch of the imagination to carry us to the heroic days of the fair-haired, blue-eyed Norsemen, who, impelled by the spirit of adventure, took to their ships after the farming season was over and sailed the seas near and far. Here was bred a sturdy race, seamen and fighters, with bold hearts and stout arms, who knew not PREFACE fear. Here also our young author finds a proto type. These fishermen, following the whales to their retreat in the far north, and battling with ice and cold, were the starting point of a line of ex plorers and discoverers who for more than four hundred years have commanded some of the best blood and brains of those who sailed the sea. They have carried on the campaign of dis covery toward the Ultima Thule, the North Pole of the earth, through a long series of heroic souls Barrents, Jackman, Willoughby, Fro bisher, Hudson, Franklin and a host ofothers to the present day. But when we consider the toll of hardship and life which the grim king of the frosty north has collected of all men and of all nations that have dared to venture within his dominions, we are impelled to ask To what purpose I may answer now as I have a hundred times before to every purpose that is noble, for the benefit of mankind, that all may have knowl edge though at the price of trial and suffering on the part of the investigator of earths phe nomena. To the same purpose that Galileo en dured the punishments of Rome for the acquir ing of knowledge, to the same purpose that scientists and thinkers in every age have endured viii PREFACE hardship that they might know the truth-For knowledge in the end is power, wealth, and hap piness for mankind. Is there no good to come to this great nation by encouraging that sacrifice of self-interest, of comfort, possibly even of life itself, which is nec essary for the successful Arctic explorer It is a terrible thing to be cold cold unto death itself. When gnawing hunger is added to the fangs of cold, and through long hardship the heroic spark flickers arid is about to go out, when it requires the combined thoughts of home, friends, and dying comrades who must be saved, to arouse one more effort to break the bonds of death, the escape from the ice king and his terrors is indeed a thing for which we must be devoutly grateful. And when a man who has made one such escape goes back again into the North that we may have knowledge, he shows truly the Christian spirit of sacrifice for others which we prize in this Christian land. In this school heroes are made. Commander Peary continued in the struggle through half a life-time.Though rebuffed time and again in these many years of suffering and constant endeavor, though often driven back, he was never defeated. He always kept in view his one aim to accomplish the work, though it had PREFACE defeated many brave hearts and demanded the lives of many. Yet what could one man do without the loyal support of subordinates and comrades To this support, coupled with the well-designed plan, do I attribute the final success of the last expedi tion for the North Pole of the earth...
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Very Good. Size: 0x0x0; first edition, xvi + 317 pages, 42 photographs, folding map at rear, blue cloth over boards with gilt titles, illustration on front board of hooded figure being chased by polar bear. Boards lightly shelfworn, extremities worn, contents slightly age toned, otherwise near fine and binding is tight. Brick and mortar bookshop since 1975!
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Illus. with photos. Very good copy. 8vo, 317 pp., Color frontispiece and 8 b/w illustrations from photographs., Bound in blue cloth; gilt-decorated front cover with color illustration by George H. Mabie mounted in the central panel (it has a background of a ship trapped in the ice, a dog sled with several dogs and a foreground of two gesturing explorers). Front hinge partially cracked; contents clean & tight.
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London 1911 2nd Nash. Preface by G. W. Melville. Account of Peary Expedition by youngest American member. Octavo, 317pp., photo illustrations, map, hardcover. Ex-library, with usual effects. Good, a bit worn, text clean and binding secure.
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Very Good. No Dustjacket. Book First Edition decorated American trade binding. With a Preface by G. W. Melville, and forty-six illustrations from photographs and a fold-out map. Blue cloth boards with gold lettering on cover and spine, scene on cover of man being chased by polar bear. Tiny spots of wear to spine corners. Light to moderate soiling to cloth. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Previous owner name and place on front free endpaper. Frontispiece photograph (group of six eskimos posing for camera) with clean tissue guard. Fold-out map at rear of book. 317 pages.
