Peary's North Greenland expedition and the relief : typescript, [ca. 1892].

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Peary's North Greenland expedition and the relief : typescript, [ca. 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).

1 v. (16 p.) ; 28 cm.

University of Chicago Library

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Sharp, Benjamin, 1858-1915

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