N-4 Down
Book description
"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…
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Most people think that the first person to conquer the North Pole was either Cook, Peary, or Byrd. The correct answer is none of them. The first persons to indisputably reach the North Pole were Roald Amundsen, Lincoln Ellsworth, and Italian General Umberto Nobile aboard the Norge, a semi-rigid airship designed by Nobile and built in Italy.
This book tells the story of Nobile’s second expedition to the North Pole, which crashed on the icepack upon its return. General Nobile, accompanied by a handful of survivors and his little dog, Titina, is stranded and gravely injured while the world…
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