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The Great Polar Fraud: Cook, Peary, and Byrd?How Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole by Anthony Galvin, Anthony Galvin
The Great Polar Fraud: Cook, Peary, and Byrd?How Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole
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Anthony Galvin, Anthony Galvin
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The Great Polar Fraud: Cook, Peary, and Byrd?How Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole

Anthony Galvin, Anthony Galvin

351 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
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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 a...

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