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Untrimmed fore-edge
Large and slim hardback in red cloth with colour photographs of the fishing folk of Provincetown
Titles in gilt lettering on green and red labels on the spine between gilt bands
42 full-page illustrations by Denis Tegetmeier
power' held at the Landesmuseum Zurich September 2014 to January 2015
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 Untrimmed fore-edgeNew 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
