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I read (or at least skimmed) Hayes a long time ago. (He is the Rev.
Gordon Hayes, as Rawlins always notes. A Rev. would not lie.) Well, as
I recall, he is a Brit, pissed off that Peary killed Scott. (That is,
if not for Peary's phony claim, Amundsen would have gone to the North
Pole, and Scott would have reached the South Pole and not been
depressed at finding Amundsen's tent. He would then have had the extra
ounce of strength to get back alive.) Hayes and Hall (and Cook for that matter) are somewhat useful in that they lay out the traditional arguments, which still make up about 90% of the so-called proof against Peary. There is no way Peary had the "speed record", and there is a lot of evidence about that. An interesting article is Gunnar Isaachsen's article (about the same time as Hayes' book) in the American Geographical Review (I think I have the name right) in which he states that Sverdrup et al. made 70 miles or more at a crack. (Isaachsen was a member of Sverdrup's expedition.) Doug |
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