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Lot 216
WHITNEY, HARRY Hunting with the Eskimos; the unique record of a sportsman's year among the northernmost tribe--the big game hunting, the native life, and the battle for existence through the long Arctic night.
New York: Century, 1910. First trade edition. Publisher's gilt decorated cloth with affixed label to cover. 9 x 6 inches; xiv, 453 pp., frontispiece, illustrated throughout after the author's photographs, including 63 half-tone plates. A very fine copy.
The author's account of his trip with Peary's last polar expedition, which he accompanied as far as Etah, Greenland. Here he overwintered in a small shack, and hunted. He met Frederic Cook in April of 1909, who left with him with some of the papers that were later purported to prove Cook's claim to have reached the Pole. Peary upon his return refused to allow these on board the Roosevelt, and Whitney subsequently became embroiled in Cook and Peary's quarrel over their polar achievements, although he resolutely refused to take sides.
C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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