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My Arctic Journal: A Year Among Ice-Fields and Eskimos
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Wife of self-proclaimed North Pole discoverer Robert Edwin Peary, Josephine Peary was the first woman apart from the Inuit to take part in an Arctic expedition. My Arctic Journal, unavailable for nearly a century, is Peary's memoir of the time she spent, from June of 1891 to August of 1892, accompanying her husband and his exploration party across the northernmost expanses
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Paperback, 312 pages
Published
February 25th 2002
by Cooper Square Press
(first published January 1893)
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My Arctic Journal. 1892, by Josephine Diebitch-Peary. Mrs. Peary, the young wife of the famous Arctic explorer Robert E. Peary, accompanies her husband on a dangerous, year long expedition to explore northern Greenland. While her husband's expeditionary party treks far off into the interior, the majority of her time is spent alone at camp near a small, remote, previously undiscovered Eskimo community. Her journal, despite being flat, detached and generally poorly written, provides important, nev
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I found this absolutely fascinating. Josephine was a brave woman and an interesting one, but she was very prejudiced against the 'Eskimos' (Inuit people) who she dismissed as ignorant savages. The book gives a picture of a complex and interesting woman and her difficult and lonely marriage.
I read a free epub version, I believe from archive.org, which had some formatting issues but was mostly readable and quite enjoyable. It was nice to read a travelogue from a female perspective -- I'm not sure how many Arctic adventure and travel books there are from a female perspective, actually, so this is a great place to start. She talks more about the domestic side of the adventure, of course, since it was 1891-92, and her duties lay mainly in household concerns, but it gives a great insigh
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