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 Large and slim hardback in

Large and slim hardback in red cloth with colour photographs of the fishing folk of Provincetown

spine a touch darkened

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

41 photo-plates including the frontispiece

the panther has been a symbol of power

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 Large and slim hardback inNew 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