My Attainment of the Pole

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Author

Cook, Frederick Albert, 1865-1940

Title

My attainment of the Pole : being the record of the expedition that first reached the boreal center, 1907-1909. With the final summary of the polar controversy

Credits

Produced by Greg Bergquist and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

G: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation

Subject

Cook, Frederick Albert, 1865-1940 -- Travel -- Arctic regions

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Text

eBook-No.

36962

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36962

Release Date

August 3, 2011

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Press Edition — MY ATTAINMENT OF THE POLE — By DR. FREDERICK A. COOK — NEW YORK AND LONDON MITCHELL KENNERLEY MCMXIII — OTHER BOOKS BY DR. COOK
2. 2.To the Pathfinders
3. 3.THE PRESENT STATUS OF THE POLAR CONTROVERSY — DR. COOK IS VINDICATED. HIS DISCOVERY OF THE NORTH POLE IS ENDORSED BY THE EXPLORERS OF ALL THE WORLD.
4. 4.PREFACE
5. 5.TABLE OF CONTENTS
6. 6.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — My Attainment of the Pole — I. THE POLAR FIGHT
7. 7.INTO THE BOREAL WILDS — II Over the Arctic Circle
8. 8.THE DRIVING SPUR OF THE POLAR QUEST — III Strange Traits of Northernmost Man
9. 9.TO THE LIMITS OF NAVIGATION — IV Alone with Our Destiny, Seven Hundred Miles From the Pole
10. 10.BEGINNING PREPARATIONS FOR THE POLAR DASH — V The Pole, the Route, and the Incentive
11. 11.THE CURTAIN OF NIGHT DROPS — VI The Sunset of 1907
12. 12.FIRST WEEK OF THE LONG NIGHT — VII The Glory of the Aurora
13. 13.THE MOONLIGHT QUEST OF THE WALRUS — VIII Five Hundred Miles Through Night and Storm
14. 14.MIDNIGHT AND MID-WINTER — IX The Coming of the Eskimo Stork
15. 15.EN ROUTE FOR THE POLE — X The Start with Sunrise of 1908
16. 16.EXPLORING A NEW PASS OVER ACPOHON — XI Breaking a Trail Beyond the Haunts of Man
17. 17.IN GAME TRAILS TO LAND'S END — XII Shores of the Circumpolar Sea
18. 18.THE TRANS-BOREAL DASH BEGINS — XIII Five Hundred Miles From the Pole
19. 19.OVER THE POLAR SEA TO THE BIG LEAD — XIV To Eighty-Third Parallel
20. 20.CROSSING MOVING SEAS OF ICE — XV The First Steps Over the Grinding Central Pack
21. 21.LAND DISCOVERED — XVI Three Hundred Miles to the Apex of the World
22. 22.BEYOND THE RANGE OF LIFE — XVII Two Hundred Miles From The Pole
23. 23.OVER POLAR SEAS OF MYSTERY — XVIII One Hundred Miles From the Pole
24. 24.TO THE POLE—THE LAST HUNDRED MILES — XIX Boreal Center is Pierced
25. 25.AT THE NORTH POLE — XX Full and Final Proofs of the Attainment — THE SUN'S TRUE CENTRAL ALTITUDE AT THE POLE. — COPY OF NOTE IN TUBE.
26. 26.THE RETURN—A BATTLE FOR LIFE AGAINST FAMINE AND FROST — XXI Southward Over the Mid-Polar Sea
27. 27.BACK TO LIFE AND BACK TO LAND — XXII Southward Into the American Archipelago
28. 28.OVERLAND TO JONES SOUND — XXIII Adrift on an Iceberg
29. 29.UNDER THE WHIP OF FAMINE — XXIV Imprisoned by the Hand of Frost
30. 30.BEAR FIGHTS AND WALRUS BATTLES — XXV Game Haunts Discovered
31. 31.BULL FIGHTS WITH THE MUSK OX — XXVI To the Winter Camp at Cape Sparbo
32. 32.WITH A NEW ART OF CHASE IN A NEW WORLD OF LIFE — XXVII Coming of the Second Winter
33. 33.A HUNDRED NIGHTS IN AN UNDERGROUND DEN — XXVIII Life About Cape Sparbo
34. 34.HOMEWARD WITH A HALF SLEDGE AND HALF-FILLED STOMACHS — XXIX Back to Greenland Friends
35. 35.ANNOATOK TO UPERNAVIK — XXX Along Danish Greenland
36. 36.FROM GREENLAND TO COPENHAGEN — XXXI At the Danish Metropolis
37. 37.COPENHAGEN TO THE UNITED STATES — XXXII Peary's Underhand Work at Labrador
38. 38.THE KEY TO THE CONTROVERSY — XXXIII Actions Which Call for Investigation
39. 39.THE MT. McKINLEY BRIBERY — XXXIV How a Man's Soul Was Marketed — THE PEARY-PARKER-BROWN HUMBUG UP TO DATE
40. 40.THE DUNKLE-LOOSE FORGERY — XXXV The Last Perjured Defamation
41. 41.HOW A GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY PROSTITUTED ITS NAME — XXXVI The Washington Verdict—The Copenhagen Verdict
42. 42.RETROSPECT — FOOTNOTES: — APPENDIX
43. 43.COPY OF THE FIELD NOTES — (Notes usually written at end of day's march.)
44. 44.QUESTIONS THAT ENTER CALCULATIONS FOR POSITION OF THE NORTH POLE. — By Frederick A. Cook. — FROM A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE POLAR CLAIMS IN A FORTHCOMING BOOK By Captain Thomas F. Hall of Omaha, Neb. — DR. COOK'S VALID CLAIM. — VERDICT OF GEN. A. W. GREELY, REAR ADMIRAL W. S. SCHLEY AND OTHER ARCTIC EXPERTS
45. 45.POSITIVE PROOF OF DR. COOK'S ATTAINMENT OF THE POLE — By CAPTAIN EVELYN BRIGGS BALDWIN — Evidence of Cook's Travels — Absolute Proof of Cook's Claim — Evidence of His Travels — Animal Trails Verify Cook's Report — Peary's Statements Prove Cook's — More Accurate Observations by Cook Than by Peary — Armchair Criticisms Unfair
46. 46.VERDICT OF THE GEOGRAPHIC HISTORIAN — DR. COOK'S RECORD IS ACCURATE IT IS CERTIFIED—IT IS CORROBORATED — HE IS THE DISCOVERER OF THE NORTH POLE — By Edwin Swift Balch — " All Travellers Called Liars " — All Discoverers First Doubted — Cook Must Have Been First — Cook's Three Achievements — The Snow Was Purple
47. 47.FOR A NATIONAL INVESTIGATION A REQUEST — By Dr. Frederick A. Cook — COPY OF TELEGRAM SENT TO FORMER PRESIDENT TAFT — AN APPEAL TO PRESIDENT WILSON
48. 48.CAN THE GOVERNMENT ESCAPE THE RESPONSIBILITY? — By Fred High — THE SPEAKER'S ROOM HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
49. 49.INDEX
50. 50.INDEX OF NEW MATERIAL — OTHER BOOKS BY DR. COOK — Through the First Antarctic Night — To the Top of the Continent — My Attainment of the Pole Edition de Luxe

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