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Record #112936:

Hero in disgrace: the life of Arctic explorer Frederick A. Cook / Howard S. Abramson.

Title: Hero in disgrace: the life of Arctic explorer Frederick A. Cook / Howard S. Abramson.
Author(s): Abramson, Howard S.
Date: 1991.
Publisher: New York: Paragon House
Abstract: Biography of controversial polar explorer and mountaineer. Re-affirms Cook's claim to have climbed Mt. McKinley in September 1906 and to have reached the North Pole in April 1908.
Keywords: 92 -- Biographies: Cook, Frederick Albert.
91(08) -- Expeditions: 1906 Cook.
91(08) -- Expeditions: 1907-09 Cook.
X -- Biographies and obituaries.
(*3) -- Arctic regions.
(*49) -- Alaska.
(*301) -- North Pole.
(*7) -- Antarctic regions.
Location(s): SCO: SPRI-SHF: 92[Cook, F.A.]
SPRI record no.: 112936

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