Frederick Cook and Robert Peary both claimed they discovered the North Pole. AGIP / Rue des Archives / The Granger Collection, New York On September 7, 1909, readers of the New York Times awakened ...

Peary's publications include Northward Over the Great Ice (1998), Nearest the Pole (1907), The North Pole (1910) and Secrets of Polar Travel (1917). The North Pole has recently been reprinted by ...

The public should be disabused of the too common idea that the discovery of the north pole is of no great practical value. It is, indeed, of vast scientific import. PEARY has now plainly marked on ...

In Nicaragua, Peary began to dream of being the one to discover the North Pole. All the while, Robert kept up his courtship with Josephine through six years of far-flung naval assignments ...

And there is controversy, of course, especially over the accounts of Frederick Cook and Robert Peary, who both claimed to ...

In 1909, he claimed to be the first person to reach the North Pole, starting a bitter, long-running feud with Admiral Robert Peary. It was a time of exploration races that saw intrepid Americans ...

Along the way, we'll see amazing wildlife, get frostbite, and realize how lucky we are not to be man-hauling thousand While on their quest for the North Pole, Robert Peary and Matthew Henson had ...