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True north : Peary, Cook, and the race to the Pole

Bruce Henderson (Author)
This book is about the claims and counterclaims in one of the most enduring and vitriolic feuds in the history of exploration. Frederick Cook and Robert Peary started out as friends, but by 1909 the goodwill had gone. Peary claimed he had discovered the Pole in April 1909, Cook claimed he had been the first to attain the Pole in 1908

Print Book, English, 2006
W.W. Norton & Co., New York, NY, 2006