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Cook & Peary: The Polar Controversy, Resolved
by Robert Bryce

Within days of each other, in September 1909, two Americans emerged from the Arctic's frozen wastes, each saying he had captured the long-sought prize for which explorers had suffered and even died: the North Pole. Frederick A. Cook's claim had priority - he had been at the Pole in April 1908 and had been forced by drifting ice and bad weather to winter in the Arctic another season. But his veracity was immediately challenged by rival explorer Robert E. Peary and his well-connected backers. In Cook & Peary, author Robert Bryce relies on diaries, ships' logs, letters, cables, newspaper reports, trial records, and photographs to reconstruct the events and peel away the many layers of argument that have confused the issue for years. He also makes a full and fair examination of their lives and draws a picture of the last days of the great expeditions, when explorers willingly risked their lives in pursuit of intangible and impossible goals.

"What a cheerless spot to have aroused the ambition of man for so many ages!...I was disappointed."
--Frederick A. Cook

"The Pole at last!!! The prize of three centuries, my dream and ambition for twenty three years. Mine at last."
--Robert E. Peary

ZC3177    Cook & Peary: The Polar Controversy, Resolved         $50.00

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