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The Great Polar Fraud: Cook, Peary, and Byrd?How Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole
The Great Polar Fraud Cook Peary and ByrdHow Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole
Author: Anthony Galvin
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 and Peary tried to convince the world of their claims. Finally the National Geographic Society endors...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781629145044
ISBN-10: 1629145041
Publication Date: 11/4/2014
Pages: 364
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Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Book Type: Hardcover
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