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The Polar Controversy between Frederick Cook and Robert Peary (June 2021): Works Cited

by Robert M. Bryce

Works Cited

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Hall, Thomas A. Has the North Pole Been Discovered?: An Analytical and Synthetical Review of the Published Narratives of the Two Arctic Explorers, Dr. Frederick A. Cook and Civil Engineer Robert E. Peary, U.S.N. R. G. Badger, 1917.

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____. A Negro Explorer at the North Pole, foreword by Robert E. Peary; preface by Booker T. Washington; new introd. by Robert M. Bryce. Cooper Square Press, 2001.

Herbert, Wally. The Noose of Laurels. Robert E. Peary and the Race to the North Pole. Athenium, 1989.

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Lewin, Walter Henry. Did Peary Reach the Pole: By “An Englishman in the Street.”  Simkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1911.

____. The Great North Pole Fraud. C. W. Daniel Co., 1935

The Lost Polar Notebook of Dr. Frederick A. Cook, transcribed and annot. by Robert M. Bryce. Open Lead Books, 2013.

McCannon, John. A History of the Arctic: Nature, Exploration and Exploitation.  Reakton Books, 2012 (CH, May’13, 50-5143).

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____. The North Pole: Its Discovery in 1909 under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club. Frederick A. Stokes, 1910.

____. The North Pole: Its Discovery in 1909 under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club, foreword by Theodore Roosevelt; new introd. by Robert M. Bryce. Cooper Square Press, 2001.

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