Excerpt from A Tenderfoot With Peary When our gallant little army fought its way across the continent to the Pacific coast, in the days now gone forever, it was regarded as the school Of heroic endeavor for the youth Of our nation. As well it might be, for the highway from east to west now happily spanned by the rails Of commerce and peace was for more than a hundred years a trail Of blood and death. And following back the course Of the pioneers, it takes but a short stretch Of the imagination to carry us to the heroic days Of the fair-haired, blue-eyed Norsemen, who, impelled by the spirit Of adventure, took to their ships after the farming season was over and sailed the seas near and far. Here was bred a sturdy race, seamen and fighters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Why would Doug Hall follow in Robert Peary's 1909 sled tracks to the North Pole, despite the grueling terrain and temperatures between 15 and 62 degrees below zero? His goal was to resurrect the spirit of Peary's journey in a world increasingly driven by instant gratification, short term business focus, and lack of sustained dedication to great causes. Peary succeeded where some 578 expeditions before him had failed. North Pole Tenderfoot is Doug's attempt to let the reader experience what is possible when one does what Peary did: think big.

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