In what may
be the most ironic of all Dr. Cook squabbles,
pro-Cook librarian Bryce is on the attack
against the wealthy academic elite he feels have
slighted him in a book that purported to "nail
Cook's coffin shut" (even though Cook was cremated)
Bradley Robinson,
February, 2002 |
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Note: Ken Ringle
interviewed Bryce in 1997
"...Robert M. Bryce has accused the
director emeritus of the Boston Science Museum of
lifting vast chunks of text, facts, syntax and even
errors from Bryce's 1997 biography of polar explorers
Robert Peary and Frederick Cook.
Bryce's attorneys have called on Seattle publisher the
Mountaineers Books to halt distribution of "The
Dishonorable Dr. Cook" by Bradford Washburn and Peter
Cherici, published last fall, until the issue can be
resolved....Bryce said the 192-page, unfootnoted volume not only
appropriates research and writing from Bryce's 1997 book
"Cook & Peary: The Polar Controversy, Resolved," but
Washburn and Cherici never even mention Bryce's
encyclopedic biography in the bibliography...."
Full text of story:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A18459-2002Feb3
Excerpt from:
Ken Ringle
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, February 4, 2002; Page C01 |
