cook dr frederick a (10 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good.

New edition. 8vo. xlviii + 610pp. + index + adverts. B/w. portrait frontispiece and illustrations. Paperback in original pictorial grey wrapps. with white lettering to spine, some minor wear to corners, otherwise very good. ISBN 0815411375 US$15.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: Like New. Used - Like New. This is a reproduction of an out of print title. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover in red cloth lettered in gilt. xx+604 pp. with index, appendix of field notes and addtional appendix "Questions The Enter Calculations For Position of The North Pole". With 32 monochrome plates. The second edition, the first being published a year earlier by a provate publishing house. Record of the expedition to the North Pole that first reached the Boreal Center, 1907-1909, with a final summary of the Polar Controversy. Cook claimed to have reached the North Pole in April, 1908, which would have been a year before Peary. His claims have been cast into doubt, some believing taht he indeed reached the Pole while others claimed he achieved the "Pole du Froid" instead. Very good with spotting to the spine strip and a couple spots to the front cloth.

hardcover. Zustand: Good. General shelfwear to the cover and page edges.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Illustrated (illustrator). 1st Edition. A bit of rubbing to covers, otherwise a very nice copy of this controversial book - did Dr. Cook do all the wonderful exploring he claimed? Apparently not. Still and all, a nicely illustrated account of mountaineering.

Leinen, Sondereinband. 415 S Ecken und Kanten bestossen, berieben, innen durchgehend fleckig und vergilbt, Frederick A. Cook war Arzt und Anthropologe der belgischen Südpolexpedition, Deutsch von Dr Anton Weber K Lycealprofessor Sprache: Deutsch.

First Edition. First edition, large 8vo, pp. xx, [2], 604; frontispiece portrait of Cook, and 49 photographic illustrations on 31 plates, plus other illustrations. and a map in the text; hinges starting, else very good in original pictorial brown cloth. This is the narrative of Cook's supposed journey to the pole which he claims to have reached nearly a year before his rival, Robert E. Peary. Ironically, Cook had been the surgeon on Peary's Arctic expedition of 1891-92. Controversy surrounded this, as well as earlier expeditions of Cook's, and credit for reaching the pole was generally given to Peary, until he, too, was discredited. Credit is now generally given to the Minnesota insurance salesman, Ralph Plaisted (1927-2008) and his three companions, Walt Pederson, Gerry Pitzl and Jean-Luc Bombardier, who were the first to succeed in a surface traverse across the ice in a Ski-Doo snowmobile (a then-novel invention of Canada's Bombardier Company) to the North Pole on 19 April 1968, making the first confirmed surface conquest of the Pole. Arctic Bibliography 3389.

8vo, pp. xx, 604; frontispiece portrait of Cook, 30 plates, plus other illustrations. and a map in the text; original red cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; spine a little dull, else very good and sound. This copy with a presentation from Cook on the front free endpaper: "To Miss Mildred Brown, may your future be a continuous aurora without Boreas. Frederick A. Cook." This is the narrative of Cook's supposed journey to the pole which he claims to have reached nearly a year before his rival, Robert E. Peary. Ironically, Cook had been the surgeon on Peary's Arctic expedition of 1891-92. Controversy surrounded this, as well as earlier expeditions of Cook's, and credit for reaching the pole was generally given to Peary, until he, too, was discredited. Credit is now generally given to the Minnesota insurance salesman, Ralph Plaisted (1927-2008) and his three companions, Walt Pederson, Gerry Pitzl and Jean-Luc Bombardier, who were the first to succeed in a surface traverse across the ice in a Ski-Doo snowmobile (a then-novel invention of Canada's Bombardier Company) to the North Pole on 19 April 1968, making the first confirmed surface conquest of the Pole. Arctic Bibliography 3389.