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    Reference 2694 (863)
    Category Arctic;
    Author Peary, Robert E (Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt)
    Title LE DECOUVERTE DU POLE NORD en 1909, sous le patronage du Club Arctique Parry. Avec une introduction de Théodore Roosevelt et une Préface de Gilbert H. Grosvenor.
    Publishing Information Paris: Pierre Lafitte and Cie, 1911..
    Description 1st French Edition; French Text. 343pp, illustrated, frontispiece, 32 duo tone photographs, 32 monotone photographs,1 folding coloured map. Blue cloth covers with gilt titling. Previous owners pencil signature to front end paper. Shelfware, spine sunned, rips to cloth on back cover. Contents clean, tight and bright. 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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