Frederick Cook at the Top of the Continent. Returning McKinley to the Great American

19 hrs. 34 min.

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Language Russian

Author Dmitry Shparo

Narrator Mikhail Roslyakov

Description

The hero of the book is the outstanding explorer, Doctor of Medical Sciences Frederick Cook, who claimed that he was the first to reach the highest peak of North America—the McKinley mountain—in 1906, and then, in 1908, to reach the North Pole. However, soon these claims were disputed, and for a long time Cook was accused of fraud and lying.

Dmitry Shparo, the famous traveler who was the first in the world to reach the North Pole on skis, in this book proves that Frederick Cook actually climbed McKinley. This research fundamentally changes many things in the history of conquering the North American continent.

The book is intended for everyone interested in travel, in history in general, and in the chronicles of geographical discoveries in particular.

Contents:

Foreword
Introduction
Part 1. The Road to the Summit
Chapter 1. In Greenland with Peary
Chapter 2. In the ice of Antarctica with Amundsen
Chapter 3. The first expedition to McKinley
Chapter 4. The second expedition to McKinley
Chapter 5. Taking McKinley
Chapter 6. The doctor Cook’s route
Chapter 7. The taste of victory
Part 2. Friends and Enemies
Chapter 8. McKinley entered our home
Chapter 9. The book of Washburn “The Dishonest Doctor Cook”
Chapter 10. The metamorphoses of Brown and Parker
Chapter 11. Barrill, who knew the truth
Chapter 12. Barrill’s oath
Chapter 13. Captions to photographs
Chapter 14. The 1910 expeditions
Chapter 15. The fake peak
Chapter 16. Hypotheses about the main photograph
Chapter 17. The Gonnason–Helen Cook-Wetter expedition
Chapter 18. The Eastern version
Chapter 19. The merit of Hans Waale
Chapter 20. Did Washburn know that Doctor Cook was at the top of McKinley?
Chapter 21. Barrill’s diary
Chapter 22. Doctor Cook’s diary
Chapter 23. Drawings in Doctor Cook’s diary
Chapter 24. What Doctor Cook told about McKinley mountain
Chapter 25. Hugh Levin and Ted Leitzell
Chapter 26. Expeditions of the “Adventure” club
Chapter 27. The role of Stefansson
Chapter 28. Robert Bryce
Chapter 29. Helen Cook-Wetter about her father
Epilogue
Appendix
Correspondence of the English system of measures to the metric system
Ratio of temperature scales of Fahrenheit and Celsius
Selected bibliography
About the author
About the “Adventure” Club