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Cook & Peary by Robert M. Bryce (1997)

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Author: Robert M. BrycePublisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811703177Category: Biography & Memoir
Format: Hardcover Literary
Publication Year: 1997 --
Special Attributes: 1st EditionCondition: Acceptable
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Length:1133 pages
Height:9.3 in.
Width:6.3 in.
Thickness:2.5 in.
Weight:59.2 oz.

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On September 1, 1909, Frederick A. Cook announced that he had reached the North Pole. Five days later Commander Robert E. Peary claimed the honor. Through his completely documented research, author Robert Bryce reconstructs events and presents the explorers, their motivations, and their accomplishments in their own words and in the words of their contemporaries. 125 photos.


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1100 pages about Dr. Frederick Cook!
by Librarian Robert Bryce
Everything you could ever want to know about Fred Cook, whose antics led one Congressman to accuse Cook of "perverting American history." We have a junior college librarian to thank for the years he spent scrounging up every scrap about Fred Cook he could find and publishing it.
I have 2-copies never read! Like new!
The 3 3/4 pound edition of the Frederick Cook biography AKA "Crook & Peary Envy". This monstrous 1100 page book is the most complete biography ever produced of the great fraud Fred Cook.

Cook was a Brooklyn milkman who took a couple years of classes and suddenly became a "Doctor." Then he rode into the public spotlight on the powerful coat tails of Robert E. Peary's Greenland expedition. After serving as a volunteer he soon took up the "explorer game" as best he could.

Cook drew suspicions that motivated a newspaper reporter to shadow his 1903 Mt. McKinley tour. This later became a book, still in print, "Shameless diary of an Explorer" by Robert Dunn. With Cook's veracity as the first to climb the highest peak in North America under suspicion he disappeared in the Arctic only to show up in 1909 claiming he miraculously walked to the North Pole--the first human to reach this geographical prize.

Broadcasting his accomplishment over wireless telegraphy the claim was heard at receiver stations in several countries. The world awoke one morning to newspaper headlines that the North Pole had been reached. Cook quickly capitalized on his fame until the scientific community exposed him as a fraud.

Now the Cook story gets really interesting. Cook knew that if life only gave you lemons then you had to sell lemonade. And Cook did so with the fervor of a true Vaudeville showman with his coast to coast "Polar shows." Eventually he found stock fraud far more profitable and landed in Federal Prison.
The 3 3/4 pound edition has none of the facts found in books about the North Pole by any of the men who actually participated in the 1909 North Pole expedition with Robert E. Peary. Instead Crook & Peary Envy contains everything not contained in their books. So by reading the 3 3/4 pound edition you can save not having to wade through 11 pounds of authentic material. Since the authentic accounts do not contain 1100 pages about Cook, why would you?
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