By Bruce Henderson
In 1909, males laid rival claims to this crown jewel of exploration. A century later, the conflict rages nonetheless. This publication is ready the most enduring and vitriolic feuds within the historical past of exploration. "What a consummate cur he is," stated Robert Peary of Frederick cook dinner in 1911. prepare dinner answered, "Peary has stooped to each crime from rape to murder." that they had began as neighbors and shipmates, with prepare dinner, a physician, accompanying Peary, a civil engineer, on an excursion to northern Greenland in 1891. Peary's leg was once shattered in an coincidence, and with out Cook's care he may possibly by no means have walked back. yet by means of the summer time of 1909, all of the goodwill used to be long gone. Peary stated he had reached the Pole in September 1909; cook dinner scooped him, providing proof that he had gotten there in 1908. Bruce Henderson makes a superb narrative out of the claims and counterclaims, and he introduces interesting medical and mental facts to place the appalling info of polar go back and forth in a brand new context.
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We’d have to stow enough food to last the two of us for up to five months. It would barely fit in the boat. We arrived at the wholesale supermarket Makro armed with a shopping list, or perhaps more accurately a shopping book. After mulling over our nutritional requirements, we’d done our best to itemize what would be required to get us across the ocean in good health. For breakfast we would rotate among four meals: rice pudding, tapioca pudding, cream of wheat, and oatmeal. Lunches would be dried bread with peanut butter, tuna, preserved meat, or cheese (while it lasted).
The Tagus boasted currents so strong that they changed the geography of the river to form a partially inverted delta. The raised triangle of sediment that usually collects at a river’s mouth was absent. Now the incoming current—intensified by strong tides that accompanied the nearly full moon—was still close to its peak power; it would be impossible to row against. Within a few hours, however, this great force would work in our favour. After storing the last of the food, repacking gear to make it fit in the cramped compartments, and filling water containers, we were ready to go.
General delivery at the post office wouldn’t work because many items were being shipped by courier. The Canadian Embassy in Lisbon flatly refused to accept anything on our behalf. Eventually, we found a hotel that would accept our packages and, after a longer search, we found Mario Almeida, a friend of a friend who lives in Lisbon, who would do the same. “You must come to the airport to pick them up,” the shipping clerk said when the carbon-fibre oars donated to us by the Australian company Croker Oars arrived.