True North: Peary, Cook and the Race to the Pole
by Bruce Henderson

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This book is about one of the most enduring and vitriolic feuds in the history of exploration. Frederick Cook and Robert Peary had started out as friends and shipmates, with Cook, a doctor, accompanying Peary, a civil engineer, on an expedition to northern Greenland in 1891. Peary's leg was shattered in an accident, and without Cook's care he might never have walked again. But by the summer of 1909, all the goodwill was gone. Peary said he had reached the Pole in September 1909; Cook scooped him, presenting evidence that he had gotten there in 1908.

Bruce Henderson makes a wonderful narrative out of the claims and counterclaims, and introduces fascinating scientific and psychological evidence to put the appalling details of polar travel in a new context.

"This adventure yarn delivers as both a cautionary tale and a fitting memorial to polar exploration."— Publishers Weekly

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Weight:	0.39 kg
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ISBN-10:	0393327388
ISBN-13/EAN:	9780393327380
Author:	Bruce Henderson
Publisher:	W.W. Norton New York
Publication Date:	2/2006
Pages:	352 pp
Size/Dimensions:	8 1/4 x 5 1/2
Binding:	Paperback