The Snow Baby: The Arctic Childhood Admiral Robert E. Peary's Daring Daughter
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Author:
Katherine Kirkpatrick
Publication:
2007 by Holiday House
Genre:
Biography, Geography, History, Non-fiction
Pages:
50
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News of Marie Ahnighito Peary's birth on an icy bay in northern Greenland spread around the globe, shocking Victorian society. The daughter of prominent American parents had been born in a tarred lodge at the edge of the known world! Even the Inuit who visited the blonde, blue-eyed baby were amazed. They called her "Snow Baby."
While most girls Marie's age were studying sewing and other "womanly arts," she was wearing caribou skin pants, sliding down glacial cliffs, and making friends with the Inuit children. Spending her childhood partly in the Artic and partly with relatives on the East Coast of the United States, she grew up in two worlds.
Through vivid text and stunning historic photographs, The Snow Baby recalls the remarkable childhood of Admiral Robert E. Peary's spirited daughter.
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The Snow Baby: The Arctic Childhood Admiral Robert E. Peary's Daring Daughter
Kirkpatrick casts an unusual sidelight on the exploits of Peary and Henson with this profile of Peary’s daughter Marie, who was born in 1893 in a two-room house in northern Greenland, and spent large portions of her youth north of the Arctic Circle.
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