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The Snow Baby: The Arctic Childhood of Robert E. Peary's Daring Daughter
The Snow Baby The Arctic Childhood of Robert E Peary's Daring Daughter Author:Katherine Kirkpatrick Born in a two-room, tar-paper-covered house in the far north of Greenland, Marie Ahnighito Peary was destined to have an exciting childhood. Her parents, the famous explorer Robert E. Peary and Josephine Peary, had shocked Victorian society by starting their family so far away from civilization. Fair-skinned children were so rare in the far Nort... more »h that the local Inuit called Marie Snow Baby. Map, time line, bibliography, index.« less