Robert E. Peary at the North Pole
— A Report to the National Geographic Society
by the Foundation for the Promotion of the Art of Navigation

The Peary Report ebook The definitive analysis of Peary's navigation. An exact electronic copy of the 1989 edition, with pertinent errata and the Supplementary Report. Presented by The Foundation for the Promotion of the Art of Navigation. To purchase online click the elibra icon below. $29.95   ...item# 5111

The "Peary Report" is shorthand for Robert E. Peary at the North Pole—A Report to the National Geographic Society by the Foundation for the Promotion of the Art of Navigation, the full title of the study carried out over more than a year by four directors of the Foundation, three of whom are still active in the Foundation: Douglas Davies, Terry Carraway, and Roger Jones. The original document was 240 pages. The new ebook edition includes the Supplementary Report, presenting more data, along with several letters, and a new errata prepared by Douglas Davies, based mostly on unpublished notes from Admiral Thomas Davies, director of the project. The Report concludes from several independent methods that Robert Peary and Matthew Henson and their four Eskimo assistants Ootah, Egingwah, Seegloo, and Ooqueah did in fact make it to the Pole as claimed and that there was no evidence of Peary having presented false data. The original book was sold out long ago and has remained out of print until now. This ebook version can be fully searched and you can add to it your own comments, book marks, and highlights. It is available as a computer file download from elibrabooks.com. It can be purchased directly from the Navigation Foundation by check or money order, or it can be purchased online with a credit card at elibrabooks.com. The free elibra reader ver 2 can be downloaded from the same site. When you purchase the Peary Report ebook, you receive a serial number that is needed to download and register the ebook on your computer. Member’s price is $19.95; non-members is $29.95. There is much discussion of the Peary Report and polar navigation in general in the past issues of Navigator’s Newsletter, any of which can be accessed from the Electronic Archive of past issues, also for sale from the Foundation. In Issue 32 (summer, 1991), for example, there is a summary of the seminar at the U.S. Naval Institute entitled "All Angles: Peary and the North Pole" held on April 19, 1991 in Annapolis, MD. Douglas Davies, now President of the Foundation, who was the technical consultant on the Report, was joined on the panel by polar navigation expert Lt. Col. William Molett, USAF and Peary critics Dennis Rawlins, Wally Herbert, and Ralph Plaisted. The Newsletter article outlines the discussion of the seminar and shows they did an excellent job of defending the conclusions of the Report from the leading critics of the Peary accomplishment.