My attainment of the pole being the record of the expedition that first reached the boreal center 1907-1909 with the final summary of the polar controversy

by Frederick A. Cook, Dr

$250 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

New York: Polar Publishing Co., 1911. First edition, large 8vo, pp. xx, 2 , 604; frontispiece portrait of Cook, and 49 photographic illustrations on 31 plates, plus other illustrations. and a map in the text; hinges starting, else very good in original pictorial brown cloth. This is the narrative of Cook's supposed journey to the pole which he claims to have reached nearly a year before his rival, Robert E. Peary. Ironically, Cook had been the surgeon on

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