My attainment of the Pole
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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 traveling by dog sled. After his journey, he defended himself against the charges of fellow explorer Robert Peary, who claimed that C...
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- MY ATTAINMENT OF THE POLE
- NEW YORK AND LONDON MITCHELL KENNERLEY MCMXIII
- OTHER BOOKS BY DR. COOK
- To the Pathfinders
- THE PRESENT STATUS OF THE POLAR CONTROVERSY
- DR. COOK IS VINDICATED. HIS DISCOVERY OF THE NORTH POLE IS ENDORSED BY THE EXPLORERS OF ALL THE WORLD.
- PREFACE
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- My Attainment of the Pole
- I. THE POLAR FIGHT
- INTO THE BOREAL WILDS
- II Over the Arctic Circle
- THE DRIVING SPUR OF THE POLAR QUEST
- III Strange Traits of Northernmost Man
- TO THE LIMITS OF NAVIGATION
- IV Alone with Our Destiny, Seven Hundred Miles From the Pole
- BEGINNING PREPARATIONS FOR THE POLAR DASH
- V The Pole, the Route, and the Incentive
- THE CURTAIN OF NIGHT DROPS
- VI The Sunset of 1907
- FIRST WEEK OF THE LONG NIGHT
- VII The Glory of the Aurora
- THE MOONLIGHT QUEST OF THE WALRUS
- VIII Five Hundred Miles Through Night and Storm
- MIDNIGHT AND MID-WINTER
- IX The Coming of the Eskimo Stork
- EN ROUTE FOR THE POLE
- X The Start with Sunrise of 1908
- EXPLORING A NEW PASS OVER ACPOHON
- XI Breaking a Trail Beyond the Haunts of Man
- IN GAME TRAILS TO LAND'S END
- XII Shores of the Circumpolar Sea
- THE TRANS-BOREAL DASH BEGINS
- XIII Five Hundred Miles From the Pole
- OVER THE POLAR SEA TO THE BIG LEAD
- XIV To Eighty-Third Parallel
- CROSSING MOVING SEAS OF ICE
- XV The First Steps Over the Grinding Central Pack
- LAND DISCOVERED
- XVI Three Hundred Miles to the Apex of the World
- BEYOND THE RANGE OF LIFE
- XVII Two Hundred Miles From The Pole
- OVER POLAR SEAS OF MYSTERY
- XVIII One Hundred Miles From the Pole
- TO THE POLE—THE LAST HUNDRED MILES
- XIX Boreal Center is Pierced
- AT THE NORTH POLE
- XX Full and Final Proofs of the Attainment
- THE SUN'S TRUE CENTRAL ALTITUDE AT THE POLE.
- COPY OF NOTE IN TUBE.
- THE RETURN—A BATTLE FOR LIFE AGAINST FAMINE AND FROST
- XXI Southward Over the Mid-Polar Sea
- BACK TO LIFE AND BACK TO LAND
- XXII Southward Into the American Archipelago
- OVERLAND TO JONES SOUND
- XXIII Adrift on an Iceberg
- UNDER THE WHIP OF FAMINE
- XXIV Imprisoned by the Hand of Frost
- BEAR FIGHTS AND WALRUS BATTLES
- XXV Game Haunts Discovered
- BULL FIGHTS WITH THE MUSK OX
- XXVI To the Winter Camp at Cape Sparbo
- WITH A NEW ART OF CHASE IN A NEW WORLD OF LIFE
- XXVII Coming of the Second Winter
- A HUNDRED NIGHTS IN AN UNDERGROUND DEN
- XXVIII Life About Cape Sparbo
- HOMEWARD WITH A HALF SLEDGE AND HALF-FILLED STOMACHS
- XXIX Back to Greenland Friends
- ANNOATOK TO UPERNAVIK
- XXX Along Danish Greenland
- FROM GREENLAND TO COPENHAGEN
- XXXI At the Danish Metropolis
- COPENHAGEN TO THE UNITED STATES
- XXXII Peary's Underhand Work at Labrador
- THE KEY TO THE CONTROVERSY
- XXXIII Actions Which Call for Investigation
- THE MT. McKINLEY BRIBERY
- XXXIV How a Man's Soul Was Marketed
- THE PEARY-PARKER-BROWN HUMBUG UP TO DATE
- THE DUNKLE-LOOSE FORGERY
- XXXV The Last Perjured Defamation
- HOW A GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY PROSTITUTED ITS NAME
- XXXVI The Washington Verdict—The Copenhagen Verdict
- RETROSPECT
- FOOTNOTES:
- APPENDIX
- COPY OF THE FIELD NOTES
- (Notes usually written at end of day's march.)
- QUESTIONS THAT ENTER CALCULATIONS FOR POSITION OF THE NORTH POLE.
- FROM A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE POLAR CLAIMS IN A FORTHCOMING BOOK By Captain Thomas F. Hall of Omaha, Neb.
- DR. COOK'S VALID CLAIM.
- VERDICT OF GEN. A. W. GREELY, REAR ADMIRAL W. S. SCHLEY AND OTHER ARCTIC EXPERTS
- POSITIVE PROOF OF DR. COOK'S ATTAINMENT OF THE POLE
- Evidence of Cook's Travels
- Absolute Proof of Cook's Claim
- Evidence of His Travels
- Animal Trails Verify Cook's Report
- Peary's Statements Prove Cook's
- More Accurate Observations by Cook Than by Peary
- Armchair Criticisms Unfair
- VERDICT OF THE GEOGRAPHIC HISTORIAN
- DR. COOK'S RECORD IS ACCURATE IT IS CERTIFIED—IT IS CORROBORATED HE IS THE DISCOVERER OF THE NORTH POLE By Edwin Swift Balch
- "All Travellers Called Liars"
- All Discoverers First Doubted
- Cook Must Have Been First
- Cook's Three Achievements
- The Snow Was Purple
- FOR A NATIONAL INVESTIGATION A REQUEST
- COPY OF TELEGRAM SENT TO FORMER PRESIDENT TAFT
- AN APPEAL TO PRESIDENT WILSON
- CAN THE GOVERNMENT ESCAPE THE RESPONSIBILITY?
- THE SPEAKER'S ROOM HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- INDEX
- INDEX OF NEW MATERIAL
- OTHER BOOKS BY DR. COOK
- Through the First Antarctic Night
- To the Top of the Continent
- My Attainment of the Pole Edition de Luxe
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