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Putting Dr. Cook to rest....., October 15, 2007
Late Bradford Washburn is no stranger to Mount McKinley, its history and its environment. So I am bit surprised that people don't give him his due credit when he came out with this book that centered around Dr. Frederick Cook and his false claims to be the first man to climbed Mount McKinley.
One previous reviewer wrote about the book Robert Bryce did on the same subject and how Washburn failed to credit him. It could be that maybe Washburn did forget. But then it could be that Washburn knew enough about the subject himself to come up with a book that centered strictly around Dr. Cook's fraud-ridden McKinley climb, using Cook's own photographs to discredit him completely.
This book is well illustrated to prove beyond the shadow of any doubt, that Dr. Cook faked his story about climbing Mount McKinley. Washburn uses Cook's own photographs and compared it with modern ones and pointed it out on the map to show where Cook was at each photograph. Authors also showed how Cook's photos were cropped to create a fantasy to support Cook's claims of conquering McKinley when he came no where close to it. The book is very clearly written, easy to read and follow.
I highly recommended this book to anyone who have any interest in the history of McKinley, plus the photographs inside, even Cook's, proves to be quite noteworthy as well. At least for me, this book settled all accounts on Dr. Frederick Cook's big hoax.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Brilliant! Long overdue!, February 8, 2002
Washburn is a thorough detective who leaves no doubt Cook was a fraud. His photography from airplanes, and the illustrations show the true scale of the mountains, peaks, glaciers, etc. surrounding McKinley. This makes it easy to understand why his companions back at camp immediately recognized Cook's claim as a lie. They knew he could not have covered all that distance, climbed that mother of all mountains, and then come back in so few days. What fascinates me is how Cook got the public to believe it by working the media. His magazine stories and photos, books, lectures, all created the illusion that he had done something spectacular. But he had not! He only went camping ... Washburn is a remarkable individual, a fine writer, and a photographer on a par with Ansel Adams. This work is a masterpiece from a mountaineering genius. It is too bad he had nothing more than Cook to use as a foil. By the way - the publisher made a serious mistake using the smallest type font used for body text I have ever seen in a book. One could increase font size several points and still have generous margins. What were they thinking? This is tiny text! A flaw I'll try to overlook from this magnificent end to the Cook debate.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Washburn and Cherici leave no doubt !!, December 11, 2001
Washburn and Cherici leave no doubt that Dr. Cook was a fraud. The book carefully lays out its claim in undisputable evidence both through text and pictures. I couldn't put the book down. I will be surprised if this work doesn't nail the lid on the century long controversy.
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