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The Explorer and the Journalist - The Extraordinary Story of Frederick Cook and Philip Gibbs (Hardcover)
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The Explorer and the Journalist - The Extraordinary Story of Frederick Cook and Philip Gibbs (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R515
Discovery Miles 5 150
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On 1 September 1909, a telegram from American explorer Frederick
Cook caused perhaps the biggest sensation in polar exploration
history. With no word from Cook for over a year and many assuming
he was dead, here came the news that not only had he survived his
Arctic expedition, but he had claimed one of the great prizes in
exploration by becoming the first person to reach the North Pole.
Cook was instantly transformed into one of the heroes of the age.
And with his boat due to arrive in Copenhagen a few days later, the
world's journalists scrambled to get there in time to meet him. One
of those journalists was Philip Gibbs, a young reporter for the
Daily Chronicle in London, who had a chance encounter in a
Copenhagen cafe that led to him getting an exclusive interview with
Cook before he reached land. But Gibbs left the interview doubting
Cook's story, and so in his subsequent article he decided to gamble
both his career and his reputation by making it clear he thought
Cook might be lying. Gibbs's article made him the most unpopular
man in Copenhagen, and marked the start of a frantic six days
during which Copenhagen showered Cook with accolades while Gibbs
tried to prove his claim was untrue. The Explorer and the
Journalist is the story of the explorer who was determined to prove
he really had reached the Pole, and the journalist who was
convinced he was a fraud. It was a confrontation from which only
one of them would emerge with his reputation intact...
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