Across Watergate Peary's 1905-6 attempt on the

Peary's 1905-6 attempt on the North Pole by way of Smith Sound was sponsored by the Peary Arctic Club

Publisher's original burgundy cloth with silver title lettering to spine

including the titlepage which is stained

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Across Watergate Peary's 1905-6 attempt on theLondon: Methuen, 1986. First UK Edition. Slim 8vo. pp 138. Pale blue paper covered boards with black cloth spine. With the excellent and unclipped dust jacket. No old inscriptions. A near fine copy. 'Across' was originally published in German in 1983 under the title 'Der Chinese des Schmerzes'. The Austrian author was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2019 "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and