fess hon (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Washington 1915. Speech of S.D. Fess relating to the Cook-Peary controversy. Octavo, 23pp., later plain wraps. Institution ownership stamp and inked name on first page. Good, some wear, light soiling.

8vo, pp. 27, [5]; self-wrappers, saddle-stitched; old Brown University rubberstamp at the top of the first leaf, accession numbers in pencil; all else very good. Uncommon: only 7 in OCLC: University of Alberta, Royal Danish Library, Smithsonian, Oberlin, Dartmouth, the U.S. Navy and National Geographic Society. Regarding the accounts of Robert Peary and Frederick Cook and their respective claims of having reached the North Pole. Fess supports Robert E. Peary's claim to discovery of the North Pole and declares similar claim by Frederick A. Cook to be fraudulent. He also states that U.S. Congress does not support Cook.