Polar Controversy Literature: Part 6: 1912-13: New Editions of My Attainment of the Pole
March 4, 2026
No legitimate publisher would touch Cook’s narrative in book form in 1911, so he formed his own “Polar Publishing Company” to issue and promote it and manage the lectures he planned to give after its publication.
T. Everett Harre was a subeditor of Hampton’s Magazine at the time Benjamin Hampton secretly contracted with Cook for a [...]