Download or read book My Polar Flights An Account of the Voyages of the Airship Italia and Norge Translated by Frances Fleetwood With Plates Including a Portrait written by Umberto Nobile and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Polar Flights written by Umberto Nobile and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the explorations carried out by the airships Norge and Italia, in 1926 and 1928 respectively.
Download or read book My Polar Flights written by Umberto Nobile and published by London : F. Muller. This book was released on 1961 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the explorations carried out by the airships Norge and Italia, in 1926 and 1928 respectively.
Download or read book The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975 written by British Library and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book With the Italia to the North Pole written by Umberto Nobile and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The semi-rigid airship, Italia, crashed on the North Pole ice on 25 May 1928. This is the first person account as told by designer and pilot of the dirigible.
Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Stefansson Collection on the Polar Regions in the Dartmouth College Library written by Stefansson Collection and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Polar Flights an Account of the Airships Italia and Norge written by Umberto Nobile and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book N 4 Down written by Mark Piesing and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "GRIPPING. ... One of the greatest polar rescue efforts ever mounted." —Wall Street Journal The riveting true story of the largest polar rescue mission in history: the desperate race to find the survivors of the glamorous Arctic airship Italia, which crashed near the North Pole in 1928. Triumphantly returning from the North Pole on May 24, 1928, the world-famous exploring airship Italia—code-named N-4—was struck by a terrible storm and crashed somewhere over the Arctic ice, triggering the largest polar rescue mission in history. Helping lead the search was Roald Amundsen, the poles’ greatest explorer, who himself soon went missing in the frozen wastes. Amundsen’s body has never been found, the last victim of one of the Arctic’s most enduring mysteries . . . During the Roaring Twenties, zeppelin travel embodied the exuberant spirit of the age. Germany’s luxurious Graf Zeppelin would run passenger service from Germany to Brazil; Britain’s Imperial Airship was launched to connect an empire; in America, the iconic spire of the rising Empire State Building was designed as a docking tower for airships. But the novel mode of transport offered something else, too: a new frontier of exploration. Whereas previous Arctic and Antarctic explorers had subjected themselves to horrific—often deadly—conditions in their attempts to reach uncharted lands, airships held out the possibility of speedily soaring over the hazards. In 1926, the famed Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen—the first man to reach the South Pole—partnered with the Italian airship designer General Umberto Nobile to pioneer flight over the North Pole. As Mark Piesing uncovers in this masterful account, while that mission was thought of as a great success, it was in fact riddled with near disasters and political pitfalls. In May 1928, his relationship with Amundsen corroded beyond the point of collaboration, Nobile, his dog, and a crew of fourteen Italians, one Swede, and one Czech, set off on their own in the airship Italia to discover new lands in the Arctic Circle and to become the first airship to land men on the pole. But near the North Pole they hit a terrible storm and crashed onto the ice. Six crew members were never seen again; the injured (including Nobile) took refuge on ice flows,unprepared for the wretched conditions and with little hope for survival. Coincidentally, in Oslo a gathering of famous Arctic explorers had assembled for a celebration of the first successful flight from Alaska to Norway. Hearing of the accident, Amundsen set off on his own desperate attempt to find Nobile and his men. As the weeks passed and the largest international polar rescue expedition mobilized, the survivors engaged in a last-ditch struggle against weather, polar bears, and despair. When they were spotted at last, the search plane landed—but the pilot announced that there was room for only one passenger. . . . Braiding together the gripping accounts of the survivors and their heroic rescuers, N-4 Down tells the unforgettable true story of what happened when the glamour and restless daring of the zeppelin age collided with the harsh reality of earth’s extremes.
Download or read book Disaster at the Pole written by Wilbur Cross and published by New York : Lyons Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1926, General Umberto Nobile gained acclaim by crossing the Pole in a dirigible, and in 1926 took a dirigible to the North Pole to land a scientific research team. The ship crashed on the return flight, hundreds of miles from help. This account tells of the crash and the international efforts to rescue the explorers, bringing to life the struggles of the survivors, the heroism and tragedy of rescuers, and political intrigue surrounding the adventure. Cross, a former editor at Life, runs an editorial consulting and writing firm. The book is not indexed. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book First Crossing of the Polar Sea written by Roald Amundsen and published by Garden City, Doubleday. This book was released on 1927 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative of the Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nobile North Polar Flight, 1926, in the airship Norge from King's Bay, West Spitsbergen, over the North Pole to Teller, Alaska.
Download or read book Polar Flight With Plates Including Portraits Maps and a Bibliography written by Basil Clarke (Writer on Aviation.) and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our Polar Flight The Amundsen Ellsworth Polar Flight Classic Reprint written by Roald Amundsen and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-21 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Our Polar Flight: The Amundsen-Ellsworth Polar Flight The Crew of N 25: ruser-larsen, Amundsen, Feucht The Crew of N 24: Ellsworth, Dietrichson, Omdal Photograph of Amundsen's Machine Taken in Flight When the two Planes Were Near Each Other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Airships in International Affairs 1890 1940 written by J. Duggan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-09-25 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the unique psychological appeal of the airship worldwide and shows how this appeal was exploited for ulterior political purposes. They were used by Count Zeppelin to advance German militarism, American Admiral Moffett to fight US Army aviation ambitions, British Lord Thomson to foster Socialism and strengthen Empire ties, Mussolini to promote Italian Fascism, Stalin to foster world Communism, and Hitler to promote Nazi ideology. As airships roamed worldwide, so they carried these political influences with them.
Download or read book The Big Trivia Quiz Book written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Put your general knowledge to the test, and impress your family and friends with your astonishing brainpower and trivia genius. An addictive quiz book for all the family featuring 10,000 questions, The Big Quiz Book has something for everyone. With 10 different general knowledge categories - from Science & Technology, Art & Literature, and Natural History, to Food & Drink, Film & TV, and Sport & Leisure - and three increasing levels of difficulty, it offers a fresh and up-to-the-minute quizzing experience that will educate and entertain all the family. Bursting with fascinating facts to boost your trivia knowledge, whatever your specialist subject or your nemesis topic, The Big Quiz Book is perfect for home entertainment and virtual pub quizzes. You won't be able to put it down!
Download or read book Subject Headings for School and Public Libraries written by Joanna F. Fountain and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides headings for topics, literary and organizational forms, and names of individuals, corporate bodies, places, works, and so on, that might be needed to catalog a general collection used at least in part by children and readers or viewers interested in popular topics.
Download or read book Memories of the Kaiser s Court written by Anne Topham and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt Revealed written by Clive Cussler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-10 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes photographs, summaries of each Dirk Pitt novel, an interview with Cussler, and Dirk Pitt trivia questions.
