True North: Peary, Cook, and the Race to the Pole.TRUE NORTH: Peary, Cook, and the Race to the Pole BRUCE HENDERSON Bruce D. Henderson (1915-1992) was the founder of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Henderson founded BCG in 1963 in Boston, Massachusetts. Originally called the Management and Consulting Division of the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company, what became BCG was itself a Ninety-six years after two men separately laid claim to being the first person to reach the North Pole North Pole, northern end of the earth's axis, lat. 90°N. It is distinguished from the north magnetic pole. U.S. explorer Robert E. Peary is traditionally credited as being the first to reach (1909) the North Pole. In 1926, Richard E. , supporters of each man are still arguing about who really won that race. Robert Robert, Henry Martyn 1837-1923. American army engineer and parliamentary authority. He designed the defenses for Washington, D.C., during the Civil War and later wrote Robert's Rules of Order (1876). Noun 1. E. Peary is generally given the credit, but Frederick Cook Frederick Albert Cook (June 10, 1865 – August 5 1940) was an American explorer and physician, noted for his weakly-documented claim of having reached the North Pole in April, 1908, a year before Robert Peary. Life Cook was born in Hortonville, New York. argued that he reached the pole nearly a year before Peary. In True North, Henderson examines the claims and counterclaims, scientific data, personal accounts, and, most dramatically, Peary's long-suppressed diary. Peary and Cook knew each other well: Cook was a doctor on one of Peary's earlier expeditions and in fact saved Peary's ability to walk by treating his shattered shat·ter v. shat·tered, shat·ter·ing, shat·ters v.tr. 1. To cause to break or burst suddenly into pieces, as with a violent blow. 2. a. leg. However, after both explorers submitted claims to reaching the pole, things turned ugly. Peary refused to transport Cook's scientific instruments from the North Pole, ensuring their loss. He was even instrumental in getting Cook sentenced to jail for 14 years. This book tells these men's stories and explores how perceptions of historical events can become clearer and more accurate over the years. W.W. Norton & Company, 2005, 331 p., b&w photos, hardcover, $24.95. |
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