Nearest the Pole 



A Narrative of the Polar Ex- 

 pedition of the Peary Arctic Club 

 in the S. S. Roosevelt, 1905-1906 



By 

 R. E. PEARY, U. S. N 



PTith ninety -Jive photographs by the 

 author, two maps and a frontis- 

 piece in colour by Albert Operti 





New York 



Doubleday, Page & Company 



1907 



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