On Thursday, March 28, the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum will host a presentation by Maine author Darrell Hartman. Mr. Hartman will discuss his first book Battle of Ink and Ice. The lecture will take place at 7:00 p.m. in Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center, on the Bowdoin College campus.

In 1909, American explorers Frederick Cook and Robert Peary both claimed to have discovered the North Pole. Battle of Ink and Ice tells the story of the explorers’ fierce rivalry. It’s also a tale of warring newspapers, because each man was backed by a rival New York City daily, the New York Herald and the New York Times. It’s a sixty-year saga of frostbite and fake news that has something to tell us about the media-saturated world we inhabit today.

Darrell Hartman has written for The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Paris Review, Travel + Leisure, Condé Nast Traveler, and Granta. He holds a B.A. in literature from Yale University and is a member of The Explorers Club in New York. Born and raised in Maine, he now lives with his wife, Dana, in the Catskills region of New York.

This event is sponsored by Charles Weston Pickard Lecture Fund and the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and is free and open to the public.