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Call of the Arctic.(Robert Edwin Peary)(Biography)
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Robert Edwin Peary longed to accomplish something that would secure him a place in history. "I must have fame," he once wrote to his mother. Born in 1856 in Cresson, Pennsylvania, he spent most of his childhood in Maine and graduated with honors from Bowdoin College in 1877. Shortly thereafter, he was appointed a civil engineer in the U.S. Navy.
By this time, most of the earth had been discovered, but the North Pole remained a mystery. Countries were scrambling to claim it. Captivated, Peary took a leave of absence from the Navy to ...
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