The 90th anniversary edition of the much-debated account by Frederick Cook of his first-ever ascent of Mount McKinley (1903-1906), published by the Frederick Cook Society and including a history of the controversy, additional corroborating source material and a report of a 1994 expedition by Ted Heckathorn. With a selection of archival photographs and illustrations. Here you can read what the explorer himself said about the expedition. Apart from any question of Cooks character or claims, his book is a classic of mountaineering.  (ALA83, $19.95)