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Profiles the life of the woman who, as a child, often accompanied her famous explorer father, Robert Peary, on many of his expeditions.
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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 North that the local Inuit called Marie "Snow Baby." Map, time line, bibliography, index. A Booklist Editors' Choice Book A Booklist Top 10 Biography for YouthAn Orbis Pictus Award Recommended TitleA Cooperative Children's Book Center Choice BookA James Madison Book Award Honor Book
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