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I saw this movie on TV in the mid 1980s. The story hits home in several ways. I attended Robert E. Peary Junior High School in Gardena, CA in the 1960s and from day one we were indoctrinated that "Peary was the first man to reach the North Pole," "Accept no substitutes," "He's it and that's that," etc., etc.
17 de feb. de 2006 · Peary said he had reached the Pole in September 1909; Cook scooped him, presenting evidence that he had gotten there in 1908. Bruce Henderson makes a wonderful narrative out of the claims and counterclaims, and he introduces fascinating scientific and psychological evidence to put the appalling details of polar travel in a new context.
Bruce Henderson is the author of True North: Peary, Cook and the Race to the Pole. He teaches writing at Stanford University. Editor's note: ...
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Cook, Peary & the Race to the Pole. PAGE 1 OF 3. Dr. Frederick Cook ... Lieutenant Peary planned his attempt at the North Pole over a number of years. In 1899 he approved taking a party of young college graduates on the resupply ship DIANA. They were known as the ...
Cook and Peary: The Race to the Pole is an unabashedly biased recreation of the controversy concerning the «conquering» of the North Pole. Robert E. Peary (Rod Steiger), a US Navy commander and shameless self-promoter, sets out through Arctic wastes in 1909 to discover the Pole, an expedition that many others have attempted but failed to complete. His principal rival is Dr. Frederick A. Cook ...
23 de jul. de 1989 · A Pilgrimage to the Pole : THE NOOSE OF LAURELS Robert E. Peary and the Race to the North Pole <i> by Wally Herbert (Atheneum: $24.95; 320 pp., illustrated; 0-689-12034-6) </i> By Stephen J. Pyne ...
