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True North - Peary, Cook, and the Race to the Pole (Paperback, New edition)
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True North - Peary, Cook, and the Race to the Pole (Paperback, New edition)
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In 1909, two men laid rival claims to this crown jewel of
exploration. A century later, the battle rages still. This book is
about one of the most enduring and vitriolic feuds in the history
of exploration. "What a consummate cur he is," said Robert Peary of
Frederick Cook in 1911. Cook responded, "Peary has stooped to every
crime from rape to murder." They had started out as friends and
shipmates, with Cook, a doctor, accompanying Peary, a civil
engineer, on an expedition to northern Greenland in 1891. Peary's
leg was shattered in an accident, and without Cook's care he might
never have walked again. But by the summer of 1909, all the
goodwill was gone. Peary said he had reached the Pole in September
1909; Cook scooped him, presenting evidence that he had gotten
there in 1908. Bruce Henderson makes a wonderful narrative out of
the claims and counterclaims, and he introduces fascinating
scientific and psychological evidence to put the appalling details
of polar travel in a new context.
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