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Wild arctic wind whipped across an endless ice field. The wind shook a lone cabin half buried in snowdrifts.
Inside the cabin an American explorer rested on a cot. He had not taken a step for weeks because his feet had been so badly frozen he was not able to put his weight on them. He leaned over to the wall by the side of his cot and on it he wrote:
I shall find a way or make one. —Robert E. Peary
Peary had one goal in life, to reach the North Pole. Through odds that would have frightened most men, Peary pushed on. The hardships he was to meet in a world little known to man were to tax his greatest mental and physical powers. But meet these hardships he did, to become the first man to stand at a point on top of the world where every direction he turned led south.
This is a thrilling account of a man who made a dream come true.
—from the dust jacket
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