Artic Heroes
Author: Ragnar Axelsson
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
Published: 2020-10
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9783969000076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Greenland Dog is one of the greatest heroes of the Arctic, but his fate is uncertain.
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Author: Ragnar Axelsson
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
Published: 2020-10
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9783969000076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Greenland Dog is one of the greatest heroes of the Arctic, but his fate is uncertain.
Author: Z. A. Mudge
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-10-18
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 3385214491
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author: Zachariah Atwell Mudge
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-03-05
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 3385365570
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author: Zachariah Atwell Mudge
Publisher:
Published: 1875
Total Pages: 352
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mark McCrum
Publisher: Sphere
Published: 2012-05-24
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 1405519630
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn April 2011, four soldiers - each a veteran of recent conflicts, who suffered devastating injuries in the line of duty - set out on an extraordinary challenge: a two-hundred mile trek, unsupported, to the North Pole. Joined by patron Prince Harry, the charity founders, a polar guide and a film crew, the team achieved their goal despite facing hurdles an able-bodied athlete would baulk at, and having seen their resilience tested to the limit. They returned with a story that proves strength of mind can be every bit as powerful as strength of body, and as an inspiration to us all.
Author: M. Jones
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-08-22
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 3385560209
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Meredith Jones
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Published: 1873
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mark Piesing
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2021-08-31
Total Pages: 475
ISBN-13: 0062851543
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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.
Author: Z. A. Mudge
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-10-14
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 338520383X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author: Barbara Taylor
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13: 0789458500
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShows and describes wildlife found in the Polar regions, looks at Inuit clothing and artifacts, and depicts the equipment used by Polar explorers.