Polar explorer Wally Herbert here exposes the fraudulent claims of Dr Frederick Cook (1908) and Commander Robert Peary (1909) to have reached the North Pole. The former was soon discredited, but Peary's claim received the support of the National Geographic Society of America. In retracing their steps and examining their papers, he uncovers a tale of obsession, rivalry and monumental deception. The first man to cross the Arctic via the North Pole by dogsledge in 1968-9, Wally Herbert recounted this adventure in "Across the Top of the World".
- ISBN10 0586211527
- ISBN13 9780586211526
- Publish Date 7 February 1991 (first published 1 March 1989)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 July 1992
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint Grafton
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 400
- Language English