My Attainment of the Pole : Being the First Record of the Expedition That First Reached the Boreal Center, 1907-1909. With the Final Summary of the Polar Controversy British 42 full-page illustrations by Denis

42 full-page illustrations by Denis Tegetmeier

Top edge dyed red

Titles in gilt lettering on green and red labels on the spine between gilt bands

History of the jewellery company founded in Bangor

Baghdad: The Indian Red Cross

My Attainment of the Pole : Being the First Record of the Expedition That First Reached the Boreal Center, 1907-1909. With the Final Summary of the Polar Controversy British 42 full-page illustrations by DenisNew York & London: Mitchell Kennerley, 1912. Second edition. Post 8vo (200 mm); xx, 604 pp. 30 photographic plates and a map. Original red cloth, spine slightly faded. Frederick Albert Cook was an American explorer who claimed to have breached the North Pole on April 21, 1908. This was a year before fellow American Robert Peary claimed the same thing, and both accounts were disputed for several years. His expedition did discover Meighen Island, the