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Battle of Ink and Ice A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media - Darrell Hartman 2023 EPUB Viking BOOKS HISTORY
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Battle of Ink and Ice A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media
Author: Darrell Hartman
Year: 2023
Number of pages: 400
Format: EPUB
File size: 42,5 MB
Language: ENG

A sixty-year saga of frostbite and fake news that follows the no-holds-barred battle between two legendary explorers to reach the North Pole, and the newspapers which stopped at nothing to get–and sell–the story.In the fall of 1909, a pair of bitter contests captured the world’s attention. The American explorers Robert Peary and Frederick Cook both claimed to have discovered the North Pole, sparking a vicious feud that was unprecedented in international scientific and geographic circles.

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