Finding the North Pole: Dr. Cook’s Own Story of his Discovery, April 21, 1908. The Story of Commander Peary’s Discovery, April 6, 1909. Together with the Marvelous Record of Former Arctic Expeditions. Illustrated.
W.E. Scull. 1909. Binding: Publisher’s full decorative cloth boards. Green pasted and free endpapers. , Notes: Frederick Albert Cook (1865 – 1940) was an American explorer, physician, and ethnographer, who is best known for allegedly being the first to reach the North Pole on April 21, 1908. A competing claim was made a year later by Robert Peary, though both men's accounts have since been fiercely disputed. Cook's reputation never recovered from the attacks on his claim. While Peary's North Pole claim was widely accepted for most of the 20th century, it has since been discredited by a variety of reviewers, including the National Geographic Society, which long supported him. Cook spent the next few years defending his claim and threatening to sue writers who said that he had faked the trip., Size: Quarto (240 x 170 mm), Illustration: Very good example. Illustrated with reproduced photographs and other plates throughout. , Pages: 448 pp., Category: Book Arctic & Antarctic;. Extremities rubbed, spine sunned, lower hinge starting. Item #B7095
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