From 1908 until 1954, Donald Baxter MacMillan spent nearly 50 years exploring the Arcticlonger than anyone else. Growing up near the ocean, and orphaned by 12, MacMillan forged an adventurous life. Mary Morton Cowan focuses on the vital role MacMillan played in Robert Peary's 1908-09 North Pole Expedition, as well as his relationships with explorers Peary, Matthew Henson, and Richard Byrd. She follows his long and distinguished career, including daring adventures, contributions to environmental science and to the cultural understanding of eastern Arctic natives. Working closely with the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum at Bowdoin College, Cowan showcases many MacMillan documents and archival photographs, many MacMillan's own in this winner of the John Burroughs Nature Books for Young Readers Award.
- ISBN13 9781590787090
- Publish Date 18 March 2010
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 3 February 2022
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Boyds Mills Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English