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    Reference 1982 (2500)
    Category Arctic;
    Author Cook, Dr Frederick A
    Title MY ATTAINMENT OF THE POLE: Being the Record of the Expedition That First Reached the Boreal Center 1907-1909 With the Final Summary of the Polar Controversy.
    Publishing Information New York and London: Mitchell Kennerley,1913.
    Description 1913 Press Edition, 3rd printing, 60th Thousand; xx, 618 pages, including appedices, index (12 page publishers advertis) illustrated, frontispiece, plus 30 b/w photos. Original covers. Shelf wear, softening to top and bottom of spine, corners bumped and beginning to fray, age toning to pages, contents clean. Nice copy. The so-called "Press Edition," of this most controversial and still debated account of Cook's claim to have reached the geographic North Pole in 1908. Cook's original purpose in exploring the region west of Greenland was ostensibly to organize a hunting expedition. Just north of Etah, Cook decided that conditions were good enough for an assault on the North Pole, and set out on his journey over the sea ice with two Eskimo companions, two sledges and 26 dogs. Cook is one of the most controversial figures in the history of polar exploration. His supporters claim that he was the hero of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, the first to climb Mt. McKinley, and the first to stand at the North Pole (allegedly only four days before Robert Peary). Others insist that Cook faked his claims to both Mt. McKinley and the North Pole, and continued a career of deceit by using the mail to defraud investors in a Texas oil promotion, for which he was convicted and spent five years in federal prison. The endless controversy and debate continues over what Cook's true accomplishments were. Ricks: p.70; Smith: 1976; Wickersham: 4904 (later printing)
    Price £60.00
    Keywords qpolarq, North Pole, Eskimo S1-Arc
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