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  Cook Peary The Polar Controversy Resolved by Robert M. Bryce 1st Ed
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Make/Author/Artist: Robert M. Bryce
Edition/ Material: First Edition
Details: Hard Cover

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Product Code: CKPEAR

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Within days of each other, in September 1909, two Americans emerged from the Arctic's frozen wastes, each saying he had captured the long sought prize for which explorers had suffered and even died; the North Pole.

Frederick A Cook's claim had priority -- he said he had been at the Pole in April 1908 and had been forced by drifting ice and bad weather to winter in the Arctic another season. But his veracity was immediately challenged by rival explorer Robert E. Peary and his well-heeled, well-connected backers.

Bryce unravels the tangled threads of partisan arguments based on illogic, falsehoods, misquotations, misunderstands, and insufficient evidence that have obscured the truth and he exposes the motivations and hidden agendas of those who sought victory for one side or the other.

CONDITION: USED lightly. Hard Cover with DJ, 1997, Stated first edition/ first printing.

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