Peary, the explorer and the man : based on his personal papers / John Edward Weems ; foreword by Sir Edmund Hillary

Los Angeles : J.P. Tarcher ; New York : Distributed by St. Martin's Press, [1988]

1988

xvii, 362 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.

Reprint. Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1967

Includes index

Bibliography: pages [349]-352

"Eventually Mary Peary sent her boy away for his early education. She disenrolled him from his first school, a red building near their Cape Elizabeth home, and paid precious dollars to install him in a succession of schools in Gorham, Topsham, Bethel, Bridgton -- all in Maine."--p.10