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Record #142045:

Cook and Peary: the polar controversy, resolved / Robert M. Bryce.

Title: Cook and Peary: the polar controversy, resolved / Robert M. Bryce.
Author(s): Bryce, Robert M.
Date: 1997.
Publisher: Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books
Abstract: Based on detailed analysis of original documents - diary entries, ships' logs, private letters, cables, newspaper reports, trial records, speeches, and photographs - reconstructs events surrounding rival claims of Frederick A. Cook and Robert E. Peary to have reached North Pole, and subsequent controversy.
Keywords: 91(08) -- Expeditions: 1907-09 Cook.
91(08) -- Expeditions: 1908-09 Peary.
93"190" -- 1900-1909.
X -- Biographies and obituaries.
(*3) -- Arctic regions.
(*301) -- North Pole.
Location(s): SCO: SPRI-SHF: (*3) : 91(091)[1997]
ISBN: 0811703177
SPRI record no.: 142045

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