Full title: To the Top of the Continent: Discovery, Exploration and Adventure in Sub-Arctic Alaska. The First Ascent of Mount McKinley, 1903-1906
Below: SIGNED AND DATED by Frederick A. Cook
New York, 1908, 1st edition. 321 pp, 47 plates. TEG. This copy has the slightest edges rubbing and bumps, but is remarkably Fine considering its age. It has no flaws, no foxing, no stains, no wear, no fading, none of the many faults that occur in books that are over a century old.
This copy is SIGNED by Frederick A. Cook and Dated 3-22-38. Above his signature on the first free endpaper FEP is a neatly written gift presentation that may or may not be related to how this copy got to be signed by Cook. Under magnification all the writing was done with the same fountain pen using the same black ink.
One of the most controversial books in the literature of mountaineering. Cook falsified his claims to have made the first ascent of McKinley.
"Detailed description of the approaches to, and the routes up Mt. McKinley, in a narrative of two expeditions, 1903 and 1906."
"He claimed to have made the first ascent of Mount McKinley but this was later proved to be false."
