TY - BOOK ID - 135344439 TI - How Peary Reached the Pole PY - 2008 SN - 077357770X 1282865757 9786612865756 0773575200 9780773575202 9780773577701 0773534504 9780773534506 9781282865754 9780773534506 PB - McGill-Queen's University Press DB - UniCat KW - Explorers KW - MacMillan, Donald Baxter, KW - Peary, Robert E. KW - Travel KW - Geschichte 1908-1909 KW - Arctic regions KW - North Pole KW - Discovery and exploration. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135344439 AB - In 1934 Donald B. MacMillan, an accomplished explorer, wrote about his early career as a member of Robert E. Peary's 1908-09 North Pole Expedition. Now available for the first time since its original publication, this expanded edition of How Peary Reached the Pole features a biography of MacMillan and thirty-six images from his hand-tinted lantern slides. MacMillan used the journal he kept during the expedition to provide an intimate view of day-to-day activities and relationships with other members of the party, detailing how he learned to drive dog teams, camp in sub-zero temperatures, and travel safely across the ice-covered Polar Sea. MacMillan's experiences and deep admiration for Peary's methods, leadership, and many accomplishments make for fascinating reading. How Peary Reached the Pole allows us to see Arctic landscapes and Inughuit culture as MacMillan experienced them, providing a perspective from which to consider the northern environmental and cultural issues that continue to concern individuals and nations today, one hundred years after Peary's historic expedition. ER -