PEARY. - Het Noordpoolkind. Marietje Peary's reisverhaal door haarzelf en haar moeder verteld. Bewerkt door B. de Graaff-van Capelle.

Amsterdam, Scheltens & Giltay, (1909). 4to. Original decorated cloth. With many photographic illustrations. 92 pp. Dutch translation of Children of the Arctic by the snow baby and her mother. New York 1903. - Marie Ahnighito Peary was born in Northwest Greenland on September 12, 1893, to arctic explorer Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary and his wife, Josephine Peary - Diebitsch. She became known worldwide as the 'Snow Baby'. - Rare. Added: Frontpage of De Illustratie. Weekblad voor katholieke huisgezinnen. nr. 46. 1902, with the news of the baby and three pictures.

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