Disaster at the Pole: The Tragedy of the Airship Italia and the 1921 Nobile Expedition to the North Pole by Wilbur Cross

Disaster at the Pole: The Tragedy of the Airship Italia and the 1921 Nobile Expedition to the North Pole

Wilbur Cross

345 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous informative tense medium-paced
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Shackleton. Scott. Amundsen. The great twentieth-century polar explorers. But others, too, were engaged in scrambles to the poles. One of the most bizarre and tragic took place in 1928.Against the backdrop of Mussolini's rising power, one of Italy...

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