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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
(above) restored & colorized images
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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