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　　Did Peary reach the North Pole? Was Admiral Byrd the first to

fly over it? Did Frederick Cook actually make the first ascent of

Mt. McKinley? Spanning 450 years of history, Great Exploration

Hoaxes tells the spellbinding stories of ten men who pursued glory

at any cost even the truth. Acclaimed author and explorer David

Roberts delves deeply into the psychology behind the stunt and asks

why these individuals, all of whom were exceptionally able, would

perpetrate fraud on such a grand and public scale and defend it to

their deaths, even in the face of damning evidence, and why these

dubious achievements are still so hotly debated, often hundreds of

years afterward.

Demonstrating that the qualities that brought an individual so

close to his goal were often the same ones that drove him to fake

success, Great Exploration Hoaxes is history at its best:

entertaining, provocative, and revealing of human nature.

David Roberts is the author of thirteen books, the most recent of

which are A Newer World: Kit Carson, John C. Fremont, and the

Claiming of the American West and True Summit: What Really Happened

on the Legendary Ascent of Annapurna. He was also responsible for

the rediscovery of the lost Arctic classic In the Land of White

Death, by Valerian Albanov, published in English for the first time

in 2000 by The Modern Library.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Roberts led or co-led thirteen Alaskan

mountaineering expeditions, making such first ascents as the west

face of Mount Huntington, Shot Tower, and the direct north face of

Denali.

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　　Walter Bonatti was born in Bergamo, Italy, in

1930. A well-known photographer and author, he received the Legion

d’Honneur in 1961 for his heroic rescue of two fellow climbers on

an expedition on which four other perished. He lives in Italy.

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Did Peary reach the North Pole? Was Admiral Byrd the first to fly over it? Did Frederick Cook actually make the first ascent of Mt. McKinley? Spanning 450 years of history, Great Exploration Hoaxes tells the spellbinding stories of ten men who pursued glory at any cost even the truth. Acclaimed author and explorer David Roberts delves deeply into the psychology behind the stunt and asks why these individuals, all of whom were exceptionally able, would perpetrate fraud on such a grand and public scale and defend it to their deaths, even in the face of damning evidence, and why these dubious achievements are still so hotly debated, often hundreds of years afterward.

Demonstrating that the qualities that brought an individual so close to his goal were often the same ones that drove him to fake success, Great Exploration Hoaxes is history at its best: entertaining, provocative, and revealing of human nature.

David Roberts is the author of thirteen books, the most recent of which are A Newer World: Kit Carson, John C. Fremont, and the Claiming of the American West and True Summit: What Really Happened on the Legendary Ascent of Annapurna. He was also responsible for the rediscovery of the lost Arctic classic In the Land of White Death, by Valerian Albanov, published in English for the first time in 2000 by The Modern Library.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Roberts led or co-led thirteen Alaskan mountaineering expeditions, making such first ascents as the west face of Mount Huntington, Shot Tower, and the direct north face of Denali.