Add to ORKGReviews the controversy as to whether Cook or Peary was first to reach the North Pole, and presents some considerations indicating the authenticity of Cook's claim: his feasable method of travel and proven ability to make the journey, his accurate description of the polar region, and his consistent story. Also, Cook's discoveries of a westerly drift of ice northwest of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and of ice islands are in line with later findings in the area
Contains a biography of the Norwegian explorer, 1872-1928, who was the first to navigate the Northwe...
On 13th November 1905, the Danish sea captain Ejnar Mikkelsen presented his detailed plans to survey...
The widespread effect in Europe of James Cook's voyages of discovery can be seen in the language of ...
IN 1909, DR. FREDERICK A. COOK created a worldwidesensation when he announced that he had reached th...
... Cook caught th polar wanderlust only a year after his graduation from the College of Physicians ...
The dramatic announcements of Cook and Peary -- Cook's story of his discovery of the North Pole -- T...
to a receptive public that he and Ed Barrill had successfully climbed Mt. McKinley by a "new ro...
This beautifully produced reprint edition of Donald B. MacMillan’s 1934 paean to his mentor Robert E...
... Phipps' voyage of 1773 ... lasted only for one season, and did not attain the North Pole. It was...
"I must have fame," young Robert Edwin Peary told his mother more than once. In the dwindling ninete...
In his memoir, A Negro Explorer at the North Pole (1912), Matthew Henson describes the toll of his a...
The article discusses Constantine Phipps’s expedition to Spitsbergen in 1773 and the extent to which...
Much historical scholarship has examined the events which took place as various explorers ventured i...
Much historical scholarship has examined the events which took place as various explorers ventured i...
The polar careers of three Maine men intersected in the far reaches of the northern Arctic Ocean at ...
Contains a biography of the Norwegian explorer, 1872-1928, who was the first to navigate the Northwe...
On 13th November 1905, the Danish sea captain Ejnar Mikkelsen presented his detailed plans to survey...
The widespread effect in Europe of James Cook's voyages of discovery can be seen in the language of ...
IN 1909, DR. FREDERICK A. COOK created a worldwidesensation when he announced that he had reached th...
... Cook caught th polar wanderlust only a year after his graduation from the College of Physicians ...
The dramatic announcements of Cook and Peary -- Cook's story of his discovery of the North Pole -- T...
to a receptive public that he and Ed Barrill had successfully climbed Mt. McKinley by a "new ro...
This beautifully produced reprint edition of Donald B. MacMillan’s 1934 paean to his mentor Robert E...
... Phipps' voyage of 1773 ... lasted only for one season, and did not attain the North Pole. It was...
"I must have fame," young Robert Edwin Peary told his mother more than once. In the dwindling ninete...
In his memoir, A Negro Explorer at the North Pole (1912), Matthew Henson describes the toll of his a...
The article discusses Constantine Phipps’s expedition to Spitsbergen in 1773 and the extent to which...
Much historical scholarship has examined the events which took place as various explorers ventured i...
Much historical scholarship has examined the events which took place as various explorers ventured i...
The polar careers of three Maine men intersected in the far reaches of the northern Arctic Ocean at ...
Contains a biography of the Norwegian explorer, 1872-1928, who was the first to navigate the Northwe...
On 13th November 1905, the Danish sea captain Ejnar Mikkelsen presented his detailed plans to survey...
The widespread effect in Europe of James Cook's voyages of discovery can be seen in the language of ...