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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
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This book is about one of the most enduring and vitriolic feuds in the history of exploration. "What a consummate cur he is, '" said Robert Peary of Frederick Cook in 1911. Cook responded, "Peary has stooped to every crime from rape to murder." They had started out as friends and shipmates, with Cook, a doctor, accompanying Peary, a civil engineer, on an expedition to northern Greenland in 1891. Peary's leg was shattered in an accident, and without...
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