WHO DISCOVERED THE NORTH POLE???
IMPORTANT POLAR EXPEDITION HAND; SIGNED BY THE ARCTIC EXPLORER: FREDERICK COOK.
MY ATTAINMENT OF THE POLE is the Record of the Expedition that First Reached the Boreal Center, 1907-1909.
Contain Final Summary of the Polar Controversy.
Hand-signed in ink by the author explorer: Dr. Frederick A. Cook, 1911 (front free endpaper).
1st edition.
Chapters on the Polar Eskimos, their hunting and ways of life, description of ice and snow in polar regions, etc.
The Polar Publishing Company, 1911.
Illustrated with frontspiece portrait photograph and 49 photographic illustrations, with several other illustrations of maps and drawings throughout.xx + 604pp.
Publishers brown pictorial cloth, lettered in gilt.
Dimensions: Hardcover 7.5 in. x 10 in.
Condition: interior clean, wear to boards noted, all maps intact, top edges of pages have stains, interior plates are very good.
Provenance: Michigan Estate-single owner.

Dr. Frederick A. Cook's original purpose in exploring the region west of Greenland was to organize a hunting expedition. Just north of Etah, Cook decided that conditions were good enough for an assault on the North Pole. He set out over sea and ice with two Eskimos, two sledges and twenty-six dogs. Cooks controversial claim to have reached the Pole four days before Perry has resulted in endless debate about WHO DISCOVERED THE NORTH POLE?

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