Includes bibliographical references (p. 45-46) and index.
Contents
On the edge of the world -- The North and South poles -- Beginnings -- Earlier explorers -- The early trips -- People of the north -- The Pole -- The Qimmiq, Inuit sled dogs -- Controversy -- The Arctic today.
Summary
Two Americans, Robert Peary and Matthew Henson, were determined to do what no one ever had, reach the North Pole.
