The North Pole: its discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club

A year after Cook claimed to have reached the North Pole, Peary announced that Cook never made it & that he, Peary, was the Pole's true conqueror. In his book he recounts his landmark expedition. Published on the 92nd anniversary of his claim. Annotation. Was Robert Peary the first man to r...

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1. Verfasser: Peary, Robert E. 1856-1920 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Cooper Square Press 2001
Ausgabe:1st Cooper Square Press ed.
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Zusammenfassung:A year after Cook claimed to have reached the North Pole, Peary announced that Cook never made it & that he, Peary, was the Pole's true conqueror. In his book he recounts his landmark expedition. Published on the 92nd anniversary of his claim. Annotation. Was Robert Peary the first man to reach the North Pole, as he claimed, on April 6, 1909? Rival explorer Frederick A. Cook called Peary's announcement a hoax, a conspiracy to fame supported by Peary's moneyed financiers
Beschreibung:Plan -- Preparations -- Start -- Up to Cape York -- Welcome from the Eskimos -- Arctic oasis -- Odd customs of an odd people -- Getting recruits -- Walrus Hunt -- Knocking at the gateway to the pole -- Close quarters with the ice -- Ice fight goes on -- Cape Sheridan at last -- Winter Quarters -- Autumn work -- Biggest game in the Arctic -- Musk-Oxen at last -- Long night -- Roosevelt's narrow escape -- Christmas on the Roosevelt -- Arctic Ice sledging as it really is -- Essentials that brought success -- Off across the frozen sea -- First open water -- Some of my Eskimos lose their nerve -- Borup's farthest north -- Good by to Marvin -- We break all records -- Bartlett reaches 87[degree] 47' -- Final spurt begun -- Only one day from the pole -- We reach the pole -- Good by to the pole -- Back to land again -- Last days at Cape Sheridan
Beschreibung:lvi, 373 S. ill. 23 cm
ISBN:0815411383
9780815411383

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