Sharp, Benjamin. Peary's North Greenland Expedition and the Relief circa 1892

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Sharp, Benjamin. Peary's North Greenland Expedition and the Relief circa 1892

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Typescript account with manuscript corrections and annotations, of the rescue of Admiral Peary's expedition to Greenland. Includes Sharp's obituary from the Proceedings of the Academy of Scientists of Philadelphia (1915).

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Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library,

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Peary, Robert Edwin, 1856-1920

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Robert Edwin Peary Sr. (born May 6, 1856, Cresson, Pennsylvania – died February 20, 1920, Washington, D.C.) was an American explorer and United States Navy officer who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best known for claiming to have reached the geographic North Pole with his expedition on April 6, 1909. Though born in Pennsylvania, Peary grew up in in Portland, Maine. He went to a prominent boarding school called Loomis Chaffe. He attende...

Sharp, Benjamin, 1858-1915

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Benjamin Sharp, Jr., zoologist and explorer. Received his A.B., 1878 from Swarthmore College, M.D., 1879 and Ph.D., 1880 from the University of Pennsylvania, and Ph.D., 1883 from the University of Wurtzburg, Bavaria. Professor of Invertebrate Zoology at the Academy of Natural Science, 1883-1915 and at the University of Pennsylvania, 1884-1888. Expeditions to: Caribbee Islands, 1888-1889; Hawaiian Islands, 1893; Arctic, 1895; Alaska, Siberia, and Arctic, 1895. Representative for Nantucket to the ...