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    The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia

    de Mark Piesing ...
    "GRIPPING. ... One of the greatest polar rescue efforts ever mounted." — Wall Street JournalThe 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 ... Leer más

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  • L'Italia di Nobile

    de Mark Piesing ...
    Traducido por PAOLO ANGELO BROVELLI ...
    La straordinaria epopea dei primordi dell'aviazione e dell'eroica «tenda rossa»Il segno tangibile dell’intraprendenza tecnologica dei «Roaring Twenties» erano i dirigibili: il tedesco Graf Zeppelin faceva servizio passeggeri dalla Germania al Brasile, l’aeronautica inglese era impegnata a collegare le zone più remote di un impero, negli Stati Uniti la punta iconica dell’Empire State Building in ... Leer más

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    The Classic Story of the Collision of the Andrea Doria and the Stockholm

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    The definitive New York Times–bestselling account: "One of the most intriguing and thought-provoking books about shipwreck since A Night to Remember" ( The Detroit News).One of the largest, fastest, and most beautiful ships in the world, the Andrea Doria was on her way to New York from her home port in Genoa. Departing from the United States was the much smaller Stockholm. On the foggy night of ... Leer más

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  • From Pole to Pole

    Roald Amundsen's Journey in Flight

    Roald Amundsen was the most successful polar explorer of his era using sledges, dogs, skis, and ships. He is mainly remembered for being the first man to reach the South Pole on December 14, 1911. What is less often remembered is that he was also the first man to reach the North Pole on May 12, 1926 as the leader of the Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nobile expedition in the airship Norge. His involvement in ... Leer más

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  • To the Edges of the Earth

    1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration

    Winner of the National Outdoor Book AwardFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a "suspenseful" ( WSJ) and "adrenaline-fueled" ( Outside) entwined narrative of the most adventurous year of all time, when three expeditions simultaneously raced to the top, bottom, and heights of the world.As 1909 dawned, the greatest jewels of exploration—set at the world's frozen extremes—lay unclaimed: the ... Leer más

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  • Fastnet, Force 10: The Deadliest Storm in the History of Modern Sailing (New Edition)

    The Deadliest Storm in the History of Modern Sailing

    In August 1979, 303 yachts began the 600-mile Fastnet Race from the Isle of Wight off the southwest coast of England to Fastnet Rock off the Irish coast and back.It began in fine weather, then suddenly became a terrifying ordeal. A Force 10, sixty-knot storm swept across the North Atlantic with a speed that confounded forecasters, slamming into the fleet with epic fury. For twenty hours, 2,500 men ... Leer más

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  • The Queen of the North Disaster

    The Captain's Story

    Few recent events in British Columbia have seized the public mind like the 2006 sinking of the BC Ferries passenger vessel Queen of the North. Across Canada, it was one of the top news stories of the year. In BC it has attained the status of nautical legend. Ten years later, questions are still being asked. How did a ship that sailed the same course thousands of times fall victim to such an ... Leer más

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  • Last Explorer

    Hubert Wilkins, Hero of the Golden Age of Polar Exploration

    de Simon Nasht ...
    In the tradition of The Ice Master and Endurance, here is the incredible story of the first truly modern explorer, whose death-defying adventures and uncommon modesty make this book itself an extraordinary discovery. Hubert Wilkins was the most successful explorer in history-no one saw with his own eyes more undiscovered land and sea. Largely self-taught, Wilkins became a celebrated newsreel ... Leer más

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  • Wanderlust

    An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age

    “If you’re interested in how to live a life without regret, you will not want to miss Wanderlust." — Jon Gertner, author of The Ice at the End of the WorldThe mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from the awe-inspiring terrain of Greenland to the uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance ... Leer más

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  • The Ice at the End of the World

    An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future

    de Jon Gertner ...
    A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic harbinger of climate change“Jon Gertner takes readers to spots few journalists or even explorers have visited. The result is a gripping and important book.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth ExtinctionNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE ... Leer más

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  • Realm of Ice and Sky

    Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue

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    Two-time National Outdoor Book Award-winning author Buddy Levy's thrilling narrative of polar exploration via airship―and the men who sacrificed everything to make history.Arctic explorer and American visionary Walter Wellman pioneered both polar and trans-Atlantic airship aviation, making history’s first attempts at each. Yet, Wellman has been cast as a self-promoting egomaniac known mostly for ... Leer más

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  • The Last Viking

    The Life of Roald Amundsen

    The authoritative biography of the famous Norwegian polar explorer: "A fascinating account of a complex and driven man" ( Burnaby Now).The Last Viking unravels the life of the man who stands head and shoulders above all those who raced to map the last corners of the world. In 1900, the four great geographical mysteries—the Northwest Passage, the Northeast Passage, the South Pole, and the North ... Leer más

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