The Great Polar Fraud: Cook, Peary, and ByrdHow Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole by Anthony Galvin
English | November 18th, 2014 | ISBN: 1629145041 | 368 Pages | EPUB | 1.47 MB
In 1910 Roald Amundsen set off from Oslo toward the North Pole but soon received word that two Americans—Frederick Cook and Robert Peary—each claimed to have reached the Pole ahead of him. Devastated, Amundsen famously went south. For years Cook and Peary tried to convince the world of their claims.