My Attainment of the Pole Being the Record of the Expedition That First Reached the Boreal Center, 1907-1909 By Frederick A. Cook, Robert M. Bryce.

My Attainment of the Pole
Being the Record of the Expedition That First Reached the Boreal Center, 1907-1909
By Frederick A. Cook, Robert M. Bryce.

Publisher:
Cooper Square Press, 2001

Good softback, some creasing and minor marks, no inscriptions.
610 pages, plus index.

The subzero temperatures were only one of the dangers explorer Frederick Cook (1865-1940) faced in his attempts to reach the North Pole. During his extraordinary and harrowing journey, he fought off arctic wolves and polar bears, lived through ice storms, almost starved on several occasions, and faced long and lonely hours of isolation. His book relates how he learned from Eskimos how to survive in the Arctic, hunting musk ox to survive, harpooning walruses, and travelling by dog sled. After his journey, he defended himself against the charges of fellow explorer Robert Peary, who claimed that Cook had lied about reaching the Pole. My Attainment of the Pole is not only a great read for any armchair explorer, it is also a controversial work that contributed to a dispute that lasted for decades.

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