To the Top of the Continent
Discovery, Exploration And Adventure In Sub-Arctic Alaska.
The First Ascent Of Mt. Mckinley, 1903-1906
By Cook, Frederick A., M.D.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1908. First Edition. 8vo – 23.5cm., [xxi], 321 pp., Appendices A,B,C & D., 46 black-and-white illustrations including black-and-white photographs, drawings and 6 maps – full-page and in text, full-page color frontis of Mount McKinley with tissue guard. No prior ownership markings, hinges un-cracked, no foxing. Publisher’s dark green cloth covered boards with cover scene of Mt. McKinley; gilt titles on spine. A Near Fine and complete copy. Neate 184; Arctic Bibliography 3390.
The famous account of Cook’s alleged fraudulent claim of his ascent of Mount McKinley. With detailed description of the approaches to, and the routes up Mt. McKinley, in a narrative of two expeditions, 1903 and 1906.
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