My Attainment of the Pole [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Cook, Frederick A

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0815411375 ISBN 13: 9780815411376

Casa editrice: Cooper Square Press, 2001

Riassunto

Addresses the controversy of who was the first man to reach the North Pole--Dr. Frederick A. Cook or Robert E. Peary--with Cook's own account of his Arctic expedition.

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L'autore:

Frederick A. Cook was an accomplished doctor, celebrated Arctic and Antarctic explorer, author, and self-proclaimed conqueror of Mt. McKinley. Robert M. Bryce, the leading authority on the two explorers, is the author of Cook and Peary: The Polar Controversy, Resolved. He lives in Monrovia, Maryland, near Washington, D. C.

Product Description:

Cook, allegedly the first man to reach the North Pole, recounts his adventures at the top of the world, his meetings with eskimos and his hunting of musk ox, plus his subsequent debates with Robert Peary after he had returned to his homeland.

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• Editore: Cooper Square Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0815411375
• ISBN 13: 9780815411376
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 700