Peary's Conquest of the North Pole and the Ss Roosevelt: the Man and Ship Who Refused to Fail Lrg edition

While Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary, USN, Retired, previous to his 1911 promotion to flag rank, spend 24 years of his life in Nicaragua, surveying a route for a transoceanic canal and during Arctic exploration, from 1885 to 1909, this Monograph will focus primarily on his last two efforts to discover the North Pole, namely his 1905 and 1908 adventures, during which he employed his new, specially, constructed ship the SS Roosevelt for the singular purpose of fulfilling his destiny?the Conquest of the North Pole.