- Paperback: 312 pages
- Publisher: Cooper Square Press; illustrated edition edition (Feb 25 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0815411987
- ISBN-13: 978-0815411987
- Product Dimensions: 2.2 x 1.4 x 0.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 354 g
- Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,732,952 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Josephine Diebitsch Peary (1863-1955) was one of the few women to write an account of her experiences during the great age of Polar exploration. My Arctic Journal chronicles her experiences in Greenland in 1891-92 when she accompanied her husband, Robert Peary, on his expedition across northern Greenland. ... The memoir is fresh and candid and full of detail about camp life with the Inuit. (The Explorers Journal )
Josephine Diebitsch Peary (1863-1955) was one of the few women to write an account of her experiences during the great age of Polar exploration. My Arctic Journal chronicles her experiences in Greenland in 1891-92 when she accompanied her husband, Robert Peary, on his expedition across northern Greenland. ... The memoir is fresh and candid and full of detail about camp life with the Inuit. (The Explorers Journal )
Josephine Diebitsch Peary (1863-1955) was one of the few women to write an account of her experiences during the great age of Polar exploration. My Arctic Journal chronicles her experiences in Greenland in 1891-92 when she accompanied her husband, Robert Peary, on his expedition across northern Greenland. ... The memoir is fresh and candid and full of detail about camp life with the Inuit. (The Explorers Journal )
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Wife of self-proclaimed North Pole discoverer Robert Edwin Peary, Josephine Peary was the first white woman to take part in an Artic exploration. Unavailable for nearly a century, this book is her account of Peary's 1891-92 expedition, of her adventurous experiences and cultural encounters, and of her extraordinary treks across the world's upper reaches. This rare, firsthand account--the only Arctic memoir composed by a woman--provides an accurate, elaborate picture of Arctic geography and Inuit culture.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Ruined with anti-Peary intro,
By Verne Robinson (Brooklyn, NY USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: My Arctic Journal: A Year among Ice-Fields and Eskimos (Paperback)
This marvelous Josephine Peary classic of women's exploration is a public domain work that anyone may reprint. This facsimile version has poorly rendered photos and a depressing introduction. Josephine was a fearless pioneer with her own side arm and a Winchester rifle to hunt even 4,000-pound walrus! She tirelessly worked with the Eskimo women learning their language and organizing the sewing of clothing from furs for her husband's expedition. However, this "new" introduction is overly long, overly negative, and reveals an agenda with the events 17 years later when Peary reached the North Pole. Skip the intro! But do enjoy Josephine's story that is intelligent, detailed, and very nicely written.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Ruined with anti-Peary intro,
By Verne Robinson - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: My Arctic Journal: A Year among Ice-Fields and Eskimos (Paperback)
This marvelous Josephine Peary classic of women's exploration is a public domain work that anyone may reprint. This facsimile version has poorly rendered photos and a depressing introduction. Josephine was a fearless pioneer with her own side arm and a Winchester rifle to hunt even 4,000-pound walrus! She tirelessly worked with the Eskimo women learning their language and organizing the sewing of clothing from furs for her husband's expedition. However, this "new" introduction is overly long, overly negative, and reveals an agenda with the events 17 years later when Peary reached the North Pole. Skip the intro! But do enjoy Josephine's story that is intelligent, detailed, and very nicely written.
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