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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Bryce, Robert M. Cook & Peary. Mechanicsburg, PA : Stackpole Books, c1997 (OCoLC)607414675 Online version: Bryce, Robert M. Cook & Peary. Mechanicsburg, PA : Stackpole Books, c1997 (OCoLC)608152924 |
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| Named Person: | Frederick Albert Cook; Robert E Peary; Frederick A Cook; Robert E Peary; Frederick Albert Cook; Robert Edwin Peary; Frederick Albert Cook; Robert E Peary |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert M Bryce |
| ISBN: | 0811703177 9780811703178 |
| OCLC Number: | 35280718 |
| Notes: | Maps of the North Pole on endpapers. |
| Description: | xviii, 1133 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Editor's note -- Prologue -- Preface -- pt. 1 -- ch. 1. The sunrise of ambition -- ch. 2. I must have fame -- ch. 3. The inspiration of all the world -- ch. 4. A permanent drawing power for life -- ch. 5. The conditions of happiness -- ch. 6. Will you kindly come to our rescue? -- ch. 7. This vanishing of the Pole Star -- ch. 8. An unimaginable dream -- ch. 9. A year, a month and a day -- ch. 10. You have chosen the happier lot -- ch. 11. Between the forbidden tundra and the smiling snow -- ch. 12. And therefore to the top of the world -- ch. 13. The wind-loved place -- ch. 14. I have been to the pole! -- ch. 15. I show you my hands -- ch. 16. We believe in you -- ch. 17. Into the hall of bribery -- ch. 18. Tell it to the Danes! -- ch. 19. I suppose I am -- ch. 20. Veritas -- ch. 21. A perversion of history -- ch. 22. The meanest men in the world -- ch. 23. At the head of the fraudists -- ch. 24. The new era -- ch. 25. Was I one of your heroes? -- ch 26. The pointed finger from his grave -- pt. 2 -- ch. 27. A matter of veracity -- ch. 28. To the top of the continent? -- ch. 29. Return to the pole -- ch. 30. To dream and not to count the cost -- Epilogue -- Postscript : An impertinence -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography of the published writings of Frederick Albert Cook -- Bibliographic sources and notes -- Index. |
| Other Titles: | Cook and Peary |
| Responsibility: | Robert M. Bryce. |
Abstract:
Not just the final word on what Cook and Peary did and did not do, but is also a full, fair examination of their lives. A finely drawn picture of the last days of the great expeditions, when explorers willingly risked their lives in pursuit of intangible and impossible goals.
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