xxi, [2], 321 pp. Illustrated with plates from photographs; color frontispiece from a painting by Russell W. Porter; maps & drawings in the text. 9x6, original cloth, pictorial cover label, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. First British Edition.

Mountaineering experiences and adventures in Alaska by the man who was to claim to be the first to reach the North Pole, a pronouncement bitterly contested by Robert E. Peary. This book was published in February, 1908, two months before he purportedly reached the pole. Arctic Bib. 3390.