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N-4 down : the hunt for the Arctic airship Italia
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"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"--
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- Creator
- Mark Piesing
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First Edition
- New York : Custom House, [2021]
- © 2021
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 428 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780062851529, 0062851527, 9780062851536, 0062851535, 9780062851543, 9780062851543
- OCLC
- on1225288272
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [371]-410) and index.
- Introduction: Once upon a time in the North -- Prologue: The Arctic Ocean, May 25, 1928 -- "You are supposed to be dead" -- "There is no room for Prima Donnas in the Italian Air Force" -- "Do you know where Amundsen is?" -- "She would be there to inform on us" -- "The most sensational sporting event in human history" -- "Let him go, for he cannot possibly come back to bother us anymore" -- "We are quite aware that our venture is difficult and dangerous . . . but it is this very difficulty and danger which attracts us" -- "God save us!" -- "We will die when God has decided" -- "Do you as you like, but I am going looking for Nobile" -- "Woman joins Arctic search" -- "When I die you can eat me, but not before" -- "Down with Nobile! Death to Nobile!" -- "This is real exploring despite the luxury" -- Epilogue: The Kremlin, Moscow, 1933
Subjects
- Italia (Airship)
- Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration.
- Nobile, Umberto, 1885-1978 -- Travel -- Arctic regions.
- Explorers -- Aviation disasters.
- Airships -- Accidents -- Arctic regions.
- Amundsen, Roald, 1872-1928 -- Travel -- Arctic regions.
- Search and rescue operations -- Arctic regions -- History -- 20th century.
- Survival at sea.
- Fascism.
- fascism.
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