THE NORTH POLE With and Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt

PEARY, Robert E

Published by London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1910

About this Item

First UK edition. Royal 8vo. Original blue cloth, gold medallion to upper board, image of polar bear blocked in white to lower cover, head of polar bear blocked in white to spine, lettered in gilt to upper cover and spine; pp. xii, 326; four photogravures including portrait frontispiece, 112 black and white photographic plates, 1 large folding coloured map (a little foxed and with a few marginal repairs); minor rubbing to extremities and to gilt of medallion, light browning to endpapers, as usual, light spotting to top-edges and margins, internally bright and clean. A VG copy. Following earlier attempts, Robert Peary succeeded in reaching the North Pole on 6th April 1909. Immediately after his return, controversy broke out due to Frederick Cook's announcement, just 4 days before Peary's, of his own attainment of the Pole on 23rd September 1908. The North Pole contains no hint of the ensuing - and often acrimonious - debate concerning these competing claims. At the time, Peary came to be regarded as offering the surer claim. Cook's own published account, My Attainment of the Pole, did not appear until 1911 and inevitably appears more 'embattled' than does Peary's relatively straightforward account. Seller Inventory # 1017

Bibliographic Details

Title: THE NORTH POLE With and Introduction by ...

Publisher: London : Hodder & Stoughton

Publication Date: 1910

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition

Book Type: Book