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True north : Peary, Cook, and the race to the Pole / Bruce Henderson.

Henderson, Bruce, 1946- (Author).

Summary:

Chronicles the feud between rival explorers Robert Peary and Frederick Cook, who both claimed to have reached the North Pole first, in an account that presents scientific and psychological evidence from their expeditions.

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  • ISBN: 0393327388
  • ISBN: 9780393327380
  • Physical Description: 331 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First Norton edition
  • Publisher: New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton, 2006.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-318) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Part 1 Men of Destiny -- Chapter 1 Call of the Northland 29 -- Chapter 2 North Greenland Expedition 42 -- Chapter 3 Arctic Tenderfoots 50 -- Chapter 4 Death on a Glacier 68 -- Chapter 5 Ruled with an Iron Hand 78 -- Chapter 6 Snow Baby 89 -- Chapter 7 "Polar Summer Resort" 101 -- Chapter 8 Bounty Hunting 109 -- Chapter 9 Destination Antarctica 116 -- Chapter 10 Ice Man 133 -- Chapter 11 Roof of the Continent 143 -- Chapter 12 Farthest North 156 -- Part 2 To the Pole -- Chapter 13 "A Crazy Hunger" 173 -- Chapter 14 "I Shall Win This Time" 185 -- Chapter 15 Polar Quest 194 -- Chapter 16 "Forward! March!" 206 -- Chapter 17 "I Have Reached the Pole" 224 -- Chapter 18 "Nailed to the Pole" 244 -- Chapter 19 Seized by a "Heartsickness" 261.

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Subject:
Cook, Frederick Albert, 1865-1940.
Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920.
Explorers > United States > Biography.
North Pole.
Genre:
Biographies.

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