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British Antarctic Expedition (1907-1909). Cook, Frederick Albert 1865-1940 duca degli Abruzzi Savoia, Luigi Amedeo di 1873-1933 Henson, Matthew Alexander 1866-1955 K2 (Pakistan : Mountain) Description and travel Mountaineering expeditions Pakistan K2 (Mountain) New York (State) Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin) 1856-1920 Polar regions Discovery and exploration Sir Shackleton, Ernest Henry 1874-1922Hartman, Darrell
Summary: "A sixty-year saga of frostbite and fake news that follows the no-holds-barred battle between two legendary explorers to reach the North Pole, and the newspapers which stopped at nothing to get--and sell--the story. In the fall of 1909, a pair of bitter contests captured the world's attention. The American explorers Robert Peary and Frederick Cook both claimed to have discovered the North Pole,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 998 HARLarson, Edward J. (Edward John)
Summary: "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, an entwined narrative of the most adventurous year of all time, when three expeditions simultaneously raced to the top, bottom, and heights of the world. As 1909 dawned, the greatest jewels of exploration--set at the world's frozen extremes--lay unclaimed: the North and South Poles and the so-called Third Pole, the "pole of altitude," located in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018