[Gutenberg 36962] • 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 by Cook, Frederick Albert -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Press Edition MY ATTAINMENT OF THE POLE

NEW YORK AND LONDON MITCHELL KENNERLEY MCMXIII

OTHER BOOKS BY DR. COOK

To the Pathfinders 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.

PREFACE TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

My Attainment of the Pole

I. THE POLAR FIGHT INTO THE BOREAL WILDS

II Over the Arctic Circle

THE DRIVING SPUR OF THE POLAR QUEST

III Strange Traits of Northernmost Man

TO THE LIMITS OF NAVIGATION

IV Alone with Our Destiny, Seven Hundred Miles From the Pole

BEGINNING PREPARATIONS FOR THE POLAR DASH

V The Pole, the Route, and the Incentive

THE CURTAIN OF NIGHT DROPS

VI The Sunset of 1907

FIRST WEEK OF THE LONG NIGHT

VII The Glory of the Aurora

THE MOONLIGHT QUEST OF THE WALRUS

VIII Five Hundred Miles Through Night and Storm

MIDNIGHT AND MID-WINTER

IX The Coming of the Eskimo Stork

EN ROUTE FOR THE POLE

X The Start with Sunrise of 1908

EXPLORING A NEW PASS OVER ACPOHON

XI Breaking a Trail Beyond the Haunts of Man

IN GAME TRAILS TO LAND'S END

XII Shores of the Circumpolar Sea

THE TRANS-BOREAL DASH BEGINS

XIII Five Hundred Miles From the Pole

OVER THE POLAR SEA TO THE BIG LEAD

XIV To Eighty-Third Parallel

CROSSING MOVING SEAS OF ICE

XV The First Steps Over the Grinding Central Pack

LAND DISCOVERED

XVI Three Hundred Miles to the Apex of the World

BEYOND THE RANGE OF LIFE

XVII Two Hundred Miles From The Pole

OVER POLAR SEAS OF MYSTERY

XVIII One Hundred Miles From the Pole

TO THE POLE—THE LAST HUNDRED MILES

XIX Boreal Center is Pierced

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.

THE RETURN—A BATTLE FOR LIFE AGAINST FAMINE AND FROST

XXI Southward Over the Mid-Polar Sea

BACK TO LIFE AND BACK TO LAND

XXII Southward Into the American Archipelago

OVERLAND TO JONES SOUND

XXIII Adrift on an Iceberg

UNDER THE WHIP OF FAMINE

XXIV Imprisoned by the Hand of Frost

BEAR FIGHTS AND WALRUS BATTLES

XXV Game Haunts Discovered

BULL FIGHTS WITH THE MUSK OX

XXVI To the Winter Camp at Cape Sparbo

WITH A NEW ART OF CHASE IN A NEW WORLD OF LIFE

XXVII Coming of the Second Winter

A HUNDRED NIGHTS IN AN UNDERGROUND DEN

XXVIII Life About Cape Sparbo

HOMEWARD WITH A HALF SLEDGE AND HALF-FILLED STOMACHS

XXIX Back to Greenland Friends

ANNOATOK TO UPERNAVIK

XXX Along Danish Greenland

FROM GREENLAND TO COPENHAGEN

XXXI At the Danish Metropolis

COPENHAGEN TO THE UNITED STATES

XXXII Peary's Underhand Work at Labrador

THE KEY TO THE CONTROVERSY

XXXIII Actions Which Call for Investigation

THE MT. McKINLEY BRIBERY

XXXIV How a Man's Soul Was Marketed

THE PEARY-PARKER-BROWN HUMBUG UP TO DATE

THE DUNKLE-LOOSE FORGERY

XXXV The Last Perjured Defamation

HOW A GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY PROSTITUTED ITS NAME

XXXVI The Washington Verdict—The Copenhagen Verdict

RETROSPECT

FOOTNOTES:

APPENDIX

COPY OF THE FIELD NOTES

(Notes usually written at end of day's march.)

QUESTIONS THAT ENTER CALCULATIONS FOR POSITION OF THE NORTH POLE.

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

POSITIVE PROOF OF DR. COOK'S ATTAINMENT OF THE POLE

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

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

"All Travellers Called Liars" All Discoverers First Doubted Cook Must Have Been First Cook's Three Achievements The Snow Was Purple

FOR A NATIONAL INVESTIGATION A REQUEST

COPY OF TELEGRAM SENT TO FORMER PRESIDENT TAFT

AN APPEAL TO PRESIDENT WILSON

CAN THE GOVERNMENT ESCAPE THE RESPONSIBILITY?

THE SPEAKER'S ROOM HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

INDEX 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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