"Who was the first person to reach the north pole? According to American adventurer Frederick Cook, it was him. But now a new book will set out the evidence that the explorer’s 114-year-old claim was an instance of fake news on a global scale." https://theguardian.com/science/2023/may/28/was-the-first-man-to-reach-the-north-pole-a #History #Arctic #Explorer #book #histodon #histodons #books @bookstodon @histodon @histodons