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Through the first Antarctic night, 1898-1899

by Frederick Albert Cook

★3.7/5
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Frederick Albert Cook (1865 – 1940) was an American explorer, physician, and ethnographer, noted for his disputed claims of having been the first to reach the North Pole in 1908. Cook is also noted for his disputed claim of being the first to ascend Mt. McKinley. Before all this controversy, in 1898 Cook participated in a ground-breaking Belgian expedition to the Antarctica, which Cook narrates in this book.In 1897, it had been known for over a hundred years that there was a great body of land in the Antarctic region. Belgium was the first country to send an expedition to it, with trained men ...

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