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• The North Pole: Its Discovery in 1909 Under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club (originally published 1910; reprinted New York: Greenwood Press, 1968), by Robert E. Peary, contrib. by Theodore Roosevelt and Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Negro Explorer at the North Pole (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1912), by Matthew Alexander Henson, contrib. by Robert E. Peary and Booker T. Washington
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, page images, and Librivox audio
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• My Attainment of the Pole: Being the Record of the Expedition That First Reached the Boreal Center, 1907-1909. With the Final Summary of the Polar Controversy, by Frederick Albert Cook (Gutenberg ebook)

• Our lost explorers : the narrative of the Jeannette Arctic Expedition as related by the survivors, and in the records and last journals of Lieutenant De Long / revised by Raymond Lee Newcomb ; with an introduction by W.L. Gage. (Hartford, Conn., American Pub. Co., 1888, c1882) (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Great White North: The Story of Polar Exploration From the Earliest Times to the Discovery of the Pole (New York: Macmillan, 1910), by Helen S. Wright
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Discovery of the North pole: ([Chicago?, c1909]), by James Martin Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• A negro explorer at the North pole, (New York, Frederick A. Stokes company, [1912]), by Matthew Alexander Henson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Great White North: The story of polar exploration from the earliest times to the discovery of the pole, by Helen S. Wright (Gutenberg ebook)
• Andrée and His Balloon, by Henri Lachambre and Alexis Machuron (Gutenberg ebook)
• Round About the North Pole, by W. J. Gordon, illust. by Edward Whymper (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Siege and Conquest of the North Pole, by George Bryce (Gutenberg ebook)
• Geschiedenis der Noordsche Compagnie (in Dutch), by Samuel Muller (Gutenberg ebook)

• To the Pole: The Diary and Notebook of Richard E. Byrd, 1925-1927 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Richard Evelyn Byrd, ed. by Raimund E. Goerler (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• Cast Away at the Pole (Adventure Library #144; New York: Street and Smith, c1904), by William Wallace Cook (PDF with commentary at Toronto Public Library)
• The Field of Ice (London and New York: G. Routledge and Sons, 1875), by Jules Verne, illust. by Riou (multiple formats at Google)
• The Field of Ice (New York; London: G. Routledge, 1875), by Jules Verne (Gutenberg text)
• The Voyage to the North Pole, As Accomplished by Three Englishmen, With an Account of What They Saw There (Cambridge: W. Metcalfe and Son, 1878), by Daylight
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Trip to the North Pole: or, The Discovery of the Ten Tribes, As Found in the Arctic Ocean (Salt Lake City: Tribune Print. Co., 1903), by O. J. S. Lindelof (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arqtiq: A Story of the Marvels at the North Pole (1899), by Anna Adolph
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The English at the North Pole: Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras, by Jules Verne (Gutenberg text with map)
• Don Sturdy Across the North Pole: or, Cast Away in the Land of Ice (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1925), by Victor Appleton, illust. by Walter S. Rogers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Voyage to the North Pole (London: G. Walker; et al., 1817), by Benjamin Bragg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Top o' the World: A Once Upon a Time Tale, by Mark Swan, illust. by Henry Mayer (Gutenberg ebook)

• The North Pole: Its Discovery in 1909 Under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club (originally published 1910; reprinted New York: Greenwood Press, 1968), by Robert E. Peary, contrib. by Theodore Roosevelt and Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Cruise of the Corwin, by John Muir (illustrated HTML at Yosemite Web)
• Description of Messrs. Marshall's Grand Peristrephic Panorama of the Polar Regions, Which Displays the North Coast of Spitzbergen, Baffin's Bay, Arctic Highlands, &c., Now Exhibiting in the Masonic Hall, York Street, Bath (Shrewsbury: Printed by W. Eddowes, 1822)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Life With the Esquimaux: A Narrative of Arctic Experience in Search of Survivors of Sir John Franklin's Expedition (popular edition, with maps; London: S. Low, Son, and Marston, 1865), by Charles Francis Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life With the Esquimaux: The Narrative of Captain Charles Francis Hall, of the Whaling Barque "George Henry", From the 29th May, 1860, to the 13th September, 1862 (London: S. Low, Son, and Marston, 1864), by Charles Francis Hall
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Thirty Years in the Arctic Regions, Or, The Adventures of Sir John Franklin (New York: G. Cooper, 1859), by John Franklin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Concise Account of Voyages, for the Discovery of a North-West Passage, Undertaken for Finding a New Way to the East-Indies (London: Printed for the Proprietor, 1782), by Richard Pickersgill (page images in Germany)
• In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times (2 volumes; London: W. Heinemann, 1911), by Fridtjof Nansen, trans. by Arthur G. Chater
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to the Mouth of the Great Fish River, and Along the Shores of the Arctic Ocean, in the Years 1833, 1834, and 1835 (Paris: A and W. Calignani, 1836), by George Back and John Richardson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The United States Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin: A Personal Narrative (new edition; Philadelphia: Childs and Peterson, 1856), by Elisha Kent Kane (page images at MOA)
• Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55, by Elisha Kent Kane (page images at MOA)
• A Negro Explorer at the North Pole (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1912), by Matthew Alexander Henson, contrib. by Robert E. Peary and Booker T. Washington
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, page images, and Librivox audio
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The knights of the frozen sea. A narrative of Arctic discovery and adventure. (New York, D. Appleton & co., 1867) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arctic explorations and discoveries during the nineteenth century. : Being detailed accounts of the several expeditions to the north seas, both English and American, conducted by Ross, Parry, Back, Franklin, M'Clure and others. Including the first Grinnell expedition, under lieutenant De Haven, and the final effort of Dr. E.K. Kane in search of Sir John Franklin / Edited and completed by Samuel M. Smucker ... (New York and Auburn : Miller, Orton & co., 1857), by Samuel M. Smucker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Greely Arctic expedition as fully narrated by Lieut. Greely, U.S.A., and other survivors. Full account of the terrible sufferings on the ice .... (Philadelphia, Pa., Barclay & co., [1884]), by George L. Barclay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vers le pôle (in French), by Fridtjof Nansen, trans. by Charles Rabot (Gutenberg ebook)
• Leven en streven van L. R. Koolemans Beynen (in Dutch), by Charles Boissevain (Gutenberg ebook)
• Nordenskiöldin matkat ja retket napamerillä: Nuorisolle kerrottuina (in Finnish), by Rafaël Hertzberg, trans. by Elias Erkko (Gutenberg ebook)
• My Attainment of the Pole: Being the Record of the Expedition That First Reached the Boreal Center, 1907-1909. With the Final Summary of the Polar Controversy, by Frederick Albert Cook (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II, by A. E. Nordenskiöld, trans. by Alexander Leslie (Gutenberg ebook)

• Polaris: The Chief Scientist's Recollections of the American North Pole Expedition, 1871-73 (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2016), by Emil Bessels, trans. by William Barr (PDF with commentary at Calgary)
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences at a Reception Given to the Captain and Officers of the Jeannette Search Expedition (San Francisco, 1881), by California Academy of Sciences (page images at LOC)
• The Open Polar Sea: A Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery Towards the North Pole, in the Schooner "United States", by I. I. Hayes (page images at MOA)
• Narrative of the North Polar Expedition, by United States Navy (page images at MOA)
• Our lost explorers : the narrative of the Jeannette Arctic Expedition as related by the survivors, and in the records and last journals of Lieutenant De Long / revised by Raymond Lee Newcomb ; with an introduction by W.L. Gage. (Hartford, Conn., American Pub. Co., 1888, c1882) (page images at HathiTrust)
• American boys in the Arctics : a trip to the far north by a new path / by Harry W. French ... (Boston : Lothrop Publishing Company, [c1899]), by Harry W. French (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Arctic regions: being an account of the American expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, (Auburn and Buffalo, Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1854), by P. L. Simmonds (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Far North: Exploration in the Arctic Regions, by Elisha Kent Kane (Gutenberg ebook)
• North-Pole Voyages: Embracing Sketches of the Important Facts and Incidents in the Latest American Efforts to Reach the North Pole, from the Second Grinnell Expedition to That of the Polaris, by Zachariah Atwell Mudge (Gutenberg ebook)

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