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Category: Travel, Geography, ExplorationFormat: Softcover
 North AmericaPublication Year: 2003
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My Arctic Journal, Josephine Peary, Matthew Henson, Robert E. Peary
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My Arctic Journal
by Josephine Peary, 1893 — A new edition restored by the Verne Robinson
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This is a truly remarkable body of prose
In this book will be found the record of a sensitive, intelligent woman reacting to a primitive people and a remote, hostile environment. But on a second level, just below the surface, lie the germinating seeds of many of the critical aspects of Arctic exploration for the succeeding twenty years.

28 year old Jo Peary was married to Robert E. Peary, a naval engineer of high ambition and singleness of purpose. In her book she is uprooted of her own volition and transported to the arctic wilderness of 1891. It is more remote than the craters of the Moon are today, whose inhabitants balance continuously on the razor’s edge of mere survival. The only Caucasian woman for hundreds of miles, far ahead of her time in resourcefulness, courage and stamina, she provides physical and emotional support to her injured husband, gains the respect and affection of the natives, cooks for six men (who she calls her “boys”) through the three-month arctic darkness, and with her own rifle and shotgun brings down deer and fowl for the expedition larder. This in itself is first class adventure illuminated by intelligent and articulate perception.

On the second level Mrs. Peary, in this personal story of the first serious Peary expedition, unwittingly reveals human and material factors that will directly affect the course of history. In relating her association with the Eskimos (the word Inuit was not yet in use), she previews the use of native methods of travel, clothing, hunting and shelter and the rewarded use of the Eskimos themselves, which were controlling factors in her husband’s eventual attainment of the Pole 18 years later.

With characteristic courage Jo Peary would bear her first child on these same forbidding Greenland shores the following year, support and inspire her explorer husband through another half dozen expeditions until final victory, and outlive him by more than thirty years.

My Arctic Journal provides a unique insight into a lost culture in a forbidding land as seen by an adventurous and articulate young woman, and foretells heroic deeds and high accomplishments through the determined teamwork of Robert Peary and Matthew Henson.
Narwhals have an ivory like tusk that is highly prized. Thought to be unicorn horns during the middle ages they were worth their weight in gold. Josephine Peary found that the Eskimos ate narwhal skin as a delicacy.
  The first women explorer of the arctic! Women's history, women writers; Josephine Peary, wrote her journal during the 1891–1892 Greenland expedition. Today it is a classic in arctic literature and in women's literature."
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