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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 10 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
merican had set his heart on reaching this inaccessible spot, and after twenty-three years of amazing perseverance, Robert Edwin Peary succeeded, 6 April, 1909, in placing the flag of the United States at the point where all meridians meet under the North Star. Peary deserved every honour his countrymen could give him, but, alas, at the moment of triumph the voice of an impostor dimmed the glory. The North Pole was won by the adoption of Eskimo clothing, snow houses, and a relay dog-sledge system. Peary's account of his long continued efforts to attain this object of centuries is found in numerous reports, lectures, and articles, but his chief literary production is the several volumes: Northward over the great ice (1898), Snowland t the Pole (1907), and The North Pole (1910), the last the story of the final success. Besides the conquest of the Pole, Peary determined the insularity of Greenland and added much other information to the Polar records. My Arctic journal (1893) b
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
the present, the future, the, 435 Pater, Walter, 107, 261, 377 Pathetic Symphony, the, 49 Path to Riches, the, 430 Pattee, F. L., 75 n. Patten, S. N., 442 Patterson, Medill, 294 Paul, 469 Paul Kauvar, 277 Paul Patoff, 88 Payne, J. H., 498 Peabody, Andrew Preston, 302, 472 Peabody, F. G., 423 Peabody, Josephine Preston, 290 Peabody, O. W. B., 481 Pearl Bryn, 512 Pearl of great price, the, 519 Pearl of Orr's Island, the, 72 Peary, Josephine D., 170 Peary, R. E., 169 Peffer, Senator, 357 Peg oa My heart, 295 Peirce, Benjamin, 233, 242, 462 Peirce, C. S., 236, 239, 241-44, 246, 247, 251 257, 265 Pemberton, Ebenezer, 534 Pendennis, 294 Penicault, 591 Penn, Wm., 387, 445 Pennsylvania Archives, the, 175 Pennsylvania farmer, the, 432 Pennsylvania Gazette, 576 Pennsylvania (University), 392, 393, 394, 434, 577 Penrod, 288, 420 Pension Beaurepas, the, 99 Pepys, 513 Percival, R. D., 549 Perennes, P., 592 Perp