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• Subjects: Arctic
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am not a historian but a librarian.” Authors should not be held to the fire for the excessive publicity of their publishers, but there should be some ac-countability for the assertion that Mr. Bryce was “the only one to have studied [the Cook papers] in detail and the only scholar with the right to publish excerpts. ” Not so, as at least two others and this reviewer have researched the same mate-rials and published from them. Yet what may be the most troubling for those interested in history is the subtitle, which asserts that this book has somehow “resolved ” the contro-versy (Bryce dismisses both Peary’s and Cook’s claims). The reader must decide this, but those about to embark on this thousand plus-page experience should know that any “reso-lution ” demands further reading and checking of authors and writers ignored or curtly dismissed in the reference notes.