He bowed his head gravely, and sat down in the shabby armchair to which she rather imperiously motioned him.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
In the subsequent excitement, because Peary cried fraud on the very papers which he had buried for me, an agitated group of American armchair explorers came to the conclusion against the dictates of history that the proof of the Polar quest was to be found in the re-examination of the figures of the observations for position.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
For this reason, and for others which we will presently show, this whole idea of proof by figures as devised by Mr. Peary and the armchair geographers, falls to pieces.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook