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    Category Arctic;
    Author Peary, Robert E (Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt)
    Title THE NORTH POLE: With an introduction by Theodore Roosevelt. One hundred and sixteen illustrations from photographs.
    Publishing Information London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1910.
    Description 1st UK Edition; xii, 326 pages, illustrated, 116 illustrations from photographs including 4 photogravures. Original quarter leather binding. Shelf wear, some foxing and age toning to pages as expected, contents clean. NOTE: Captain Peary photogravure is a trimmed photocopy, 2 of the other photogravures although original are also trimmed and laid in. Odd collation, frontispiece is North Pole, and there are no page numbers for the photogravures, these have been added in pencil. The MAP is an amateur PHOTOCOPY. The books has been collated and the illustrations are all present. Sold as a Reading Copy and priced accordingly. One of two London editions dated 1910, the other issued by Methuen; priority is unclear. Both London editions have a greater number of illustrations than the first (U.S.) edition, but the sixteen special plates are printed on cream rather than white paper stock, and are in black & white. Following earlier attempts, Robert Peary succeeded in reaching the North Pole on 6th April 1909. Immediately after his return, controversy broke out due to Frederick Cook's announcement, just 4 days before Peary's, of his own attainment of the Pole on 23rd September 1908. The North Pole contains no hint of the ensuing - and often acrimonious - debate concerning these competing claims. At the time, Peary came to be regarded as offering the surer claim. Cook's own published account, My Attainment of the Pole, did not appear until 1911 and inevitably appears more 'embattled' than does Peary's relatively straightforward account.
    Price £50.00
    Keywords qpolarq, polar, Arctic, expedition. S1-Arc
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