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100 1 $aGalvin, Anthony,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe great Polar fraud :$bCook, Peary, and Byrd--how three American heroes duped the world into thinking they had reached the North Pole /$cAnthony Galvin.
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bSkyhorse Publishing,$c[2014]
300 $axvi, 351 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (page 346) and index.
520 $aIn 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 and Peary tried to convince the world of their claims. Finally the National Geographic Society endorsed Peary, and the matter seemed settled. In May 1926 an American airman, Richard Byrd, flew north in a three-engine plane, and returned with a log showing that he had flown exactly over the geographical North Pole, becoming the third man to reach that mythical spot. New evidence casts doubts on the claims of Cook, Peary, and Byrd, putting Amundsen center stage as the rightful conqueror of both poles.
600 10 $aCook, Frederick Albert,$d1865-1940.
600 10 $aPeary, Robert E.$q(Robert Edwin),$d1856-1920.
600 10 $aByrd, Richard Evelyn,$d1888-1957.
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600 17 $aCook, Frederick Albert,$d1865-1940.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00068543
600 17 $aPeary, Robert E.$q(Robert Edwin),$d1856-1920.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00016828
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