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MARC recordSextant, speeds and drift: assessing evidence from Cook's polar journey of 1908 / Sheldon Shackelford Randolph Cook.
| Title: | Sextant, speeds and drift: assessing evidence from Cook's polar journey of 1908 / Sheldon Shackelford Randolph Cook. |
| Author(s): | Cook, Sheldon Shackelford Randolph. |
| Date: | [n.d.] |
| Publisher: | Atlanta, GA : |
| Abstract: | Seeks to refute claim made by R.M. Bryce (1997) that F.A. Cook was unable to handle sextant and had inadequate knowledge of navigation to reach North Pole. |
| Keywords: | 527 -- Navigation. 91(08) -- Expeditions: 1907-09 Cook. (*3) -- Arctic regions. (*301) -- North Pole. |
| Location(s): | SCO: SPRI-SHF: (*3) : 91(08)[1907-09] |
| SPRI record no.: | 197019 |
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