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 History of the jewellery company

History of the jewellery company founded in Bangor

41 photo-plates including the frontispiece

Untrimmed fore-edge

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

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 History of the jewellery companyNew 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