My Attainment of the Pole
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ISBN: 0815411375 / Publisher: Cooper Square Press, February 2001
Addresses the controversy of who was the first man to reach the North Pole--Dr. Frederick A. Cook or Robert E. Peary--with Cook's own account of his Arctic expedition.
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Cook, allegedly the first man to reach the North Pole, recounts his adventures at the top of the world, his meetings with eskimos and his hunting of musk ox, plus his subsequent debates with Robert Peary after he had returned to his homeland.
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