It takes the average reader 6 hours and 19 minutes to read The Great Polar Fraud by Anthony Galvin
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A fascinating debunking of the dubious claims made by Frederick Cook, Robert Peary, and Richard Byrd about their northern polar explorations. In 1910 Roald Amundsen set off from Oslo toward the North Pole but soon received word that two Americans—Frederick Cook and Robert Peary—each claimed to have reached the Pole ahead of him. Devastated, Amundsen famously went south. For years Cook and Peary tried to convince the world of their claims. Finally the National Geographic Society endorsed Peary, and the matter seemed settled. In May 1926 an American airman, Richard Byrd, flew north in a...
The Great Polar Fraud by Anthony Galvin is 368 pages long, and a total of 94,944 words.
This makes it 124% the length of the average book. It also has 116% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 38 minutes to read The Great Polar Fraud aloud.
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