Finding the North Pole
by Frederick A. Cook, Robert E. Peary

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Book Review: The original is much better
Summary: 1 Stars

Used but original edition of "Finding The North Pole" are so common they just about drop out trees if you look on the used market or even ebay, so I can't fathom why this was put back in print. There can't be much demand for it as it was a hastily assembled venture of sensational and inaccurate information. The publisher simply couldn't wait to rush something to print in 1909 when Cook tried to claim he had miraculously reached the Pole before the Peary expedition. Shortly after publication, in fact, Cook was run out of town when his "data" was called a "childish attempt at cheating" by the scientists who examined it.

Mark Twain said that "A lie can travel halfway around the world in the time it takes the truth to put on its shoes". This book was a perfect testament to that clever observation in 1909. One wonders why the lie has to be put back on the market 90 years later. Maybe not everyone reads Twain?

This reprint is probably useful to researchers who want to appreciate what misinformation was presented to the "man on the street" during the brief 1909 "polar controversy" without contracting mildew from an original.

Summary of Finding the North Pole

General Books

• Biographies & Memoirs
• Historical > General
• Specific Groups > Adventurers & Explorers
• History > Australia & Oceania > Polar Regions
• Travel > Polar Regions > Arctic
• Specialty Travel > Adventure > General
• Science > Earth Sciences > Geography > General