Senin, 12 Juni 2017

On Top of the World

Robert E. Peary focused fearlessly on a single quest: to stand where East meets West and North disappears. He began his obsessive quest to reach the North Pole soon after joining the U.S. Navy Corps of Engineers in 1881. In subsequent years Peary used his leave time to launch one expedition after another in search …

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