A young-adult hagiography of MacMillan with some interesting insights.
Arctic Odyssey: The Life of Rear Admiral Donald B. MacMillan.
Allen, Everett S. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1962.
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Only Yesterday.
Allen, Frederick Lewis. New York: Harper, 1931.
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p. 353, re Byrd: Yet the noble art of ballyhoo, which had flourished so successfully in the nineteen-twenties, had lost something of its vigor. Admiral Byrd’s flight to the South Pole made him a hero second only to Lindbergh in the eyes of the country at large, but in the larger centers of population there was manifest a slight tendency to yawn: his exploit had been over-publicized, and heroism, however gallant, lost something of its spontaneous charm when it was subjected to scientific management and syndicated in daily dispatches. [See also chapter 8, “The Ballyhoo Years,” p. 186ff.]
Mariner’s Sketches, Originally Published in the Manufacturers and Farmers Journal, Providence.
Ames, Nathaniel. Revised, Corrected and Enlarged by the author. Providence: Cory, Marshall and Hammond, 1830.
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The author Nathaniel Ames was the son of the statesman, Fisher Ames (1758-1808), of Dedham, Massachusetts, and was a congressman from 1789 to 1797. Nathaniel was named for his grandfather, Nathaniel Ames, famous for the Ames Almanacs, which were the inspiration to Benjamin Franklin's "Poor Richard's Almanac".
With Peary Near the Pole…
Astrup, Eivind. Translated from the Norwegian by H. J. Bull. London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1898.
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Astrup participated in two of Peary’s early Greenland expeditions.
The Alaska Frontier.
Balch, Thomas Willing. Philadelphia, PA: Allen, Lane and Scott, 1903.
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A treatise in defense of the United States claim to Alaska against later claims of Canada.
The North Pole and Bradley Land.
Balch, Thomas Willing. Philadelphia: Campion, 1913.
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An exploration of the Cook-Peary controversy, with excerpts below based on his reading experience and that of others.
Correspondence, 1908-1912. AMNH Mss. B67
Borup, George.
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Folder 1: Long letter to his father from Peary expedition, an account of his experience starting Thurs, July 23 from Turnavik in 1908:
By Airship to the North Pole: An Archaeology of Human Exploration.
Capelotti, P. J. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999.
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Deals with Andrée and Walter Wellman and their attempts to reach the North Pole through Danes Island, Spitsbergen. Chapter One is a summary of North Pole attempts.
Arctic Frontiers: United States Explorations in the Far North.
Caswell, John Edwards. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1956.
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p. 43, in 1859 Charles Francis Hall petitioned the British government to make the Resolute available to him for a further Franklin search. No success there.
Manuscripts and Archives Division, Library of Congress.
Clay Family Papers.
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Henry [Harry] Clay, of the Howgate Preliminary Expedition on the Gulnare, was the grandson of the famous Henry Clay of Lexington, KY. Materials about him and by him are in Section II. Box 46, and probably elsewhere in the Library of Congress manuscript collections.
Rites and Passages: The Experience of American Whaling, 1830-1870.
Creighton, Margaret S. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
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A delightful sociological study of American whaling and whalemen in the mid-nineteenth century, based largely on hundreds of sailors’ journals, diaries, and logs.
Autobiographical manuscript in the AMNH [RB Collection. J-3]
Ellsworth, Lincoln. Typescript, with corrections in pencil by G.H.G. Pre 1935.
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p. 1: Perhaps the first awakening of my interest in these regions came from reading Nansen’s “Farthest North.”
Beyond Horizons: Arctic and Antarctic Explorer.
Ellsworth, Lincoln. New York: Book League of America, 1938.
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Quite an engaging autobiography by the wealthy playboy who took his exploration of unknown places very seriously.
Fighting the Polar Ice.
Fiala, Anthony. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1906.
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p. 61-62: The Christmas and the New Year holidays passed happily. We celebrated them with banquets, to which our hard working steward contributed many delicacies. A Christmas issue of the Arctic Eagle, our camp newspaper, was printed, Assistant Commissary Stewart making up the forms and running the press, and Seaman Montrose, who had once been a printer, acting as compositor. Nearly all the members of the party contributed to its columns and much amusement at its quips and personals was the result.*
Peary: The Man Who Refused to Fail.
Green, Fitzhugh. New York: G.P. Putnam’s, 1926.
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A lightly disguised paeon to Peary and his endeavors, by a sometime participant in Peary’s expeditions