The Great Polar Fraud: Cook, Peary, and Byrdahow Three American Heroes Duped the World Into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole by Anthony Galvin

The Great Polar Fraud: Cook, Peary, and Byrdahow Three American Heroes Duped the World Into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole

Anthony Galvin

368 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous slow-paced
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In 1910 Roald Amundsen set off from Oslo toward the North Pole but soon received word that two Americans--Frederick Cook and Robert Peary--each claimed to have reached the Pole ahead of him. Devastated, Amundsen famously went south. For years Cook...

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