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"Now for the first time, the photographs and diaries from the 1901 Robert Peary relief expedition provide an intimate and unforgettable impression of two friends aboard ship in the Arctic at the turn of the century. The 1901 expedition documented in this book was organized to deliver supplies to polar explorer Robert Peary and to search for his wife and child. Clarence Wyckoff and Louis Bement, close friends from Ithaca, New York, and members of the Peary Arctic Club, paid $500 each to travel on the Erik.". "They embarked looking forward to what twenty-first century travelers would call…
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1 edition- Hardcover · English · 2002University of New Mexico Press · 248 pages · 9780826328106
DiariesTravelPeary Relief Expedition (1901)Discovery and explorationPictorial worksDiscoveries in geography