Cook & Peary, twenty-five years on
February 17, 2022
Twenty-five years ago today, February 17, 1997, Cook & Peary, the Polar Controversy, resolved, was published.
I’d first taken an interest in the titanic dispute over who first reached the North Pole in the mid-1970’s and read the narratives Cook and Peary had written about their attainments of the North Pole. I also made an [...]