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 green cloth with pictorial vignette stamped in white on the front cover, spine lettered in gilt, t.e.g. First Edition.

Mountaineering experiences and adventures in Alaska by the man who was to claim to be the first to reach the North Pole, a claim contested bitterly by Robert E. Peary. This book was published in February, 1908, two months before he purportedly reached the pole. With the bookplate of Frederick T. Fischer.