Ebook: From Pole to Pole: Roald Amundsen's journey in flight
Author: Amundsen Roald, Cameron Garth James
- Tags: geografska odkritja, Discovery and exploration Norwegian, Exploration Aerial, Travel, Amundsen Roald -- 1872-1928 -- Travel -- Arctic regions, Arctic regions -- Aerial exploration, North Pole -- Aerial exploration, Polar regions -- Discovery and exploration -- Norwegian, Polar regions -- Aerial exploration, geografska odkritja -- severni pol -- polarne odprave -- Roald Amunsen -- zračne ladje -- letala -- zgodovinski pregled, Amundsen Roald -- 1872-1928, Arctic Ocean -- North Pole, Arctic Regions, Pol
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
- City: New York;Arctic Ocean;North Pole;Arctic regions;Arctic Regions;Polar regions
- Edition: 1st North American ed., 1st Skyhorse Publishing ed
- Language: English
- epub
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 aviation from his experiments with man-lifting kites in 1909 to his death in 1928 while flying from Norway to Spitsbergen has not been the subject of a detailed study until now.
From Pole to Pole explores Amundsen's enthusiasm for flight from the moment he read about Blériot's flight across the English Channel in an airplane. In June 1928 Amundsen and five companions took off in a search and rescue flight for the missing airship Italia and were never seen again. The only traces of the men and their aircraft were a tip float and an empty fuel tank which...