The Navigator of New York

Growing up as an outcast and an orphan in nineteenth-century Newfoundland, Devlin Stead receives a letter from New York physician and explorer Dr. Frederick Cook that sends him to New York to become Cook's protégé, be introduced into society, and to accompany Cook on his epic race to reach the North Pole before his arch-rival Peary. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.