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 41 photo-plates including the frontispiece

41 photo-plates including the frontispiece

Large and slim hardback in red cloth with colour photographs of the fishing folk of Provincetown

The edition of 1000 copies (there was also an edition of 80 in vellum)

Untrimmed fore-edge

42 full-page illustrations by Denis Tegetmeier

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 41 photo-plates including the frontispieceNew 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