unlike the solidly continental South Pole, hides within a shifting polar sea. One of history’s most driven Pole-seekers, Robert Peary, shocked the world when he announced that his wife Josephine ...

There are also numerous books about whether Peary made it to the North Pole. Two of the best known are The Noose of Laurels: Robert E. Peary and the Race for the North Pole by Wally Herbert (Atheneum, ...

Frederick Cook and Robert Peary both claimed they discovered the ... Any endeavor to reach the pole is complicated by this fact: unlike the South Pole, which lies on a landmass, the North Pole ...