Higher and higher! The sensational air travels of Roald Amundsen
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Higher and higher! The sensational air travels of Roald Amundsen
9.99 €
The advent of airships and airplanes gave polar explorers new opportunities. Exploring the Arctic on foot or by ship is associated with obvious difficulties and dangers; air transport covers in an hour a distance that cannot be covered in a day on foot.
This bright and exciting book tells about the flights to the Arctic of one of the greatest polar travelers - the Norwegian Roald Amundsen. Amundsen opened a new page in Arctic exploration, deciding to reach the previously unconquered North Pole from the air by airplanes and airships. In the book you will learn about the flight of Amundsen and his small team on two hydroplanes to the Pole in 1925. This expedition failed: one of the airplanes because of a technical malfunction sat on the water of the Arctic Ocean, and the entire expedition barely survived. It was then that they decided to try an airship for the next flight, which seemed more reliable in the Arctic latitudes. Amundsen's plan was to find a large land mass around the North Pole or to prove its absence. To do this, he was going to fly from Spitsbergen to the pole and from there reach the Bering Strait. In 1926, Amundsen's plan was realized: the airship "Norway" flew over the "top of the Earth". After reading this book, you will learn how the great traveler Rual Amundsen died in the skies above the Arctic, flying on a hydroplane "Latam-47" to rescue the crew members of the crashed airship "Italy".
This bright and exciting book tells about the flights to the Arctic of one of the greatest polar travelers - the Norwegian Roald Amundsen. Amundsen opened a new page in Arctic exploration, deciding to reach the previously unconquered North Pole from the air by airplanes and airships. In the book you will learn about the flight of Amundsen and his small team on two hydroplanes to the Pole in 1925. This expedition failed: one of the airplanes because of a technical malfunction sat on the water of the Arctic Ocean, and the entire expedition barely survived. It was then that they decided to try an airship for the next flight, which seemed more reliable in the Arctic latitudes. Amundsen's plan was to find a large land mass around the North Pole or to prove its absence. To do this, he was going to fly from Spitsbergen to the pole and from there reach the Bering Strait. In 1926, Amundsen's plan was realized: the airship "Norway" flew over the "top of the Earth". After reading this book, you will learn how the great traveler Rual Amundsen died in the skies above the Arctic, flying on a hydroplane "Latam-47" to rescue the crew members of the crashed airship "Italy".
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