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Amundsen, Roald 1872-1928 Antarctica Discovery and exploration Belgian Belgica (Ship) BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY commandant Gerlache de Gomery, A. de (Adrien) 1866-1934 Cook, Frederick Albert 1865-1940 HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century HISTORY / Polar Regions New York (State) Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin) 1856-1920Filter By Subjects
Amundsen, Roald 1872-1928 Antarctica Discovery and exploration Belgian Belgica (Ship) BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY commandant Gerlache de Gomery, A. de (Adrien) 1866-1934 Cook, Frederick Albert 1865-1940 HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century HISTORY / Polar Regions New York (State) Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin) 1856-1920Hartman, 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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Summary: "The harrowing true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry-with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter-in the tradition of David Grann, Nathaniel Philbrick, and Hampton Sides. In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three year expedition aboard the good ship Belgica with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2021