《Great Exploration Hoaxes (Modern Library Exploration)》是2001年Random House US出版社出版的圖書，作者是David Roberts。
基本介紹
- 中文名：Great Exploration Hoaxes (Modern Library Exploration)
- 作者：David Roberts
- 出版社：Random House US出版社
- ISBN：9780679783244
內容簡介,作者簡介,
內容簡介
Did Peary reach the North Pole? Was Admiral Byrd the first tofly over it? Did Frederick Cook actually make the first ascent ofMt. McKinley? Spanning 450 years of history, Great ExplorationHoaxes tells the spellbinding stories of ten men who pursued gloryat any cost even the truth. Acclaimed author and explorer DavidRoberts delves deeply into the psychology behind the stunt and askswhy these individuals, all of whom were exceptionally able, wouldperpetrate fraud on such a grand and public scale and defend it totheir deaths, even in the face of damning evidence, and why thesedubious achievements are still so hotly debated, often hundreds ofyears afterward.
Demonstrating that the qualities that brought an individual soclose to his goal were often the same ones that drove him to fakesuccess, 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 ofwhich are A Newer World: Kit Carson, John C. Fremont, and theClaiming of the American West and True Summit: What Really Happenedon the Legendary Ascent of Annapurna. He was also responsible forthe rediscovery of the lost Arctic classic In the Land of WhiteDeath, by Valerian Albanov, published in English for the first timein 2000 by The Modern Library.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Roberts led or co-led thirteen Alaskanmountaineering expeditions, making such first ascents as the westface of Mount Huntington, Shot Tower, and the direct north face ofDenali.
作者簡介
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.
