My Arctic journal: a year among ice-fields and Eskimos

In 1891, Josephine Diebitsch Peary did something no white woman had ever done. She followed her husband Robert into the Arctic, toward the northernmost reaches of Greenland, and stayed for a year among peoples the outside world barely understood. She became the first non-Inuit woman to live among these communities, learning their survival techniques, documenting their customs, and experiencing the brutal reality of existence above the 78th parallel. My Arctic Journal captures hunting expeditions, the punishing climate, and the intricate social fabric of the Inuit. It offers an intimate portrait of expedition life, including her relationships with Frederick Cook and Matthew Henson, men who would later become famous (and infamous) in polar history. This memoir is a rare window into a vanished world, where one woman navigated between two cultures in the most extreme conditions on Earth.