Please Join the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum for a lecture by Battle of Ink and Ice author, Darrell Hartman!
Thursday, March 28, 2024 • 7:00PM
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center, Bowdoin College
FREE and Open to the Public
Battle of Ink and Ice tells the story of American explorers Frederick Cook and Robert Peary, both of whom claimed in 1909 to have discovered the North Pole. 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 was born and raised in Maine. He graduated from Yale in 2003 with a B.A. in Literature and has been a freelance writer since 2007. Published in 2023, Battle of Ink and Ice is Mr. Hartman’s first book.