By Airship to the North Pole
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-2633-1 (ISBN)
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By Airship to the North Pole chronicles the adventures of Swedish engineer Salomon August Andree, who made the first failed attempt to reach the North Pole in a hydrogen balloon in 1897, and of American journalist Walter Wellman who organized and led three unsuccessful air expeditions from 1907 to 1909. The book investigates the stories behind the quests to reach this remote and inhospitable outpost by air and examines how those stories were created and reported by the press. What he uncovers allows readers to reflect on the distortions of the written historical record, particularly unkind to Wellman, and what that may tell us about our own age of exploration as we look to the last frontiers in space.
P. J. CAPELOTTI is a lecturer in the social sciences department at Pennsylvania State University at Abington and the author of Our Man in the Crimea: Commander Hugo Koehler and the Russian Civil War. He is a Fellow of the Explorers Club and a member of the advisory board for the Program in Maritime History and Archaeology at the University of Hawaii.
List of Illustrations
Preface
A Select Chronology of Northern Expeditions and Events
A Note on Norwegian Geography
Introduction
PART ONE - History: The aerial Polar expeditions of Salomon A. Andrée and Walter Wellman, 1896-1909
1 Saint of Swedes: The Implacable Mr. Andrée
2 The Greatest Show in the Arctic: The Unsinkable Mr. Wellman
PART TWO - Archaeology: Exploring the aerial Polar base camps of Salomon A. Andrée and Walter Wellman on Danes Island, Spitsbergen, 1993
3 Arctic Ghosts: Technology and Memory on the Island of Airships
4 The Spam What Am: Advertising in Search of a North Pole
5 Broken Dreams: The Airship Wrecks of Danes Island
6 Gasbag or Windbag: Was Wellman a Liar?
Conclusion: Virgo Harbor and the Archeology of Failure
Acknowledgments
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.7.1999 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 31 |
| Verlagsort | New Brunswick NJ |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 539 g |
| Themenwelt | Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Luftfahrt / Raumfahrt |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8135-2633-7 / 0813526337 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8135-2633-1 / 9780813526331 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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