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Books : Cook & Peary: The Polar Controversy, ResolvedIn association with Amazon.comby: Robert M. Bryce  List Price: $50.00 Price: $19.19 You Save: $30.81 (62%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Dewey Decimal Number: 910.91632 EAN: 9780811703178 ISBN: 0811703177 Label: Stackpole Books Manufacturer: Stackpole Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 1133 Publication Date: 1997-02 Publisher: Stackpole Books Studio: Stackpole Books Sales Rank: 1115217 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Amazon.com: The North Pole is a desolate place. But it's at the top of the world and holds magnetic allure. Two explorers made mad dashes for it in 1908 and 1909. Within five days of each other, both Frederick Cook and Robert Peary claimed to have gotten there first. Together they inspired a bitter and never-ending controversy about who is the real Columbus of the Arctic. Every decade or so a new author claims to offer the "final word" on this dispute. In this massive book (1,133 pages), Robert Bryce may at last live up to the billing. His intriguing proposal: Both men failed, knew it and lied about it. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A Journey to SavorOne of my favorites among my polar exploration books, this ginormous slab of a tome might chill the reader's initial interest with its iceberg-like heft--were it not so absorbing on every page. The author plumbs deeply into the motivations of these two different, yet equally conflicted and complicated men and sketches in fine detail their cultural milieu. When reading of Cook's later career, I was fascinated to get a sense of the vaudeville and chautauqua worlds, not to mention the ... Read More Rating:  - A picture is worth a thousand wordsMuch more than about the race to the pole, but about all those who went on any of the expeditions, financed it, or later tried to prove or disprove Cook or Peary's claims including Congress, the newspapers, the National Geographic Society and others. The National Geogrphic Society was not made up of thousands of members as it is today and its president was apparently very pro Peary, to the point that they were offering him money and speaking engagements before their sub committee confirmed Peary's ... Read More Rating: - An exhaustive look at the Cook/Peary polar controversy...In early 1909, Frederick A. Cook emerged from the arctic wastes to claim primacy in attaining the North Pole. Five days later, Cook's former mentor, Robert E. Peary, emerged to claim the same while systematically attempting to destroy the claim of his newfound rival. What followed was a controversy of bitter and lasting enmity that raged through the press, the public, and the scientific community here and abroad. Robert Bryce has compiled a painstakingly detailed analysis of the Cook/Peary ... Read More Rating: - Another Title to Read.I have not yet read this book, however I feel the most definitive book on this subject is "A Noose of Laurels" by Wally Herbert. Mr. Herbert is an accomplished polar explorer, his knowledge of navigation is what makes his analysis of the Peary-Cook controversy so compelling. I feel no study of this subject can be made without starting with this book. Rating: - Mystery SolvedI came to this book after reading an illustrated article in a climbing magazine showing the photographs of Bradford Washburn to disprove Cook's claim to have climbed Mt. McKinley. That issue is thoroughly covered in this book by Robert Bryce but it is very much secondary to the larger issue of the discovery of the North Pole. It is true that the book could have used some editing to lesson the author's habit of mixing unimportant facts with the important. Still, a reading of the book and a review ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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