Ghost Ship Of The Pole

Author : Wilbur Cross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Arctic regions
ISBN : 0722126964

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Ghost Ship of the Pole by Wilbur Cross Pdf

Author : Wilbur CROSS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:557976330

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Ghost Ship of the Pole. The Incredible Story of the Dirigible Italia. [With Special Reference to Umberto Nobile. With Plates, Including Portraits.]. by Wilbur CROSS Pdf

Author : Wilbur Cross
Publisher : New York : W. Sloane Associates
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015024828314

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Ghost Ship of the Pole by Wilbur Cross Pdf

On May 25, 1928, the Italian dirigible Italia crashed onto an ice pack in the frozen emptiness of the Arctic Ocean. The beginning of an epic struggle for survival, this disaster initiated one of the greatest series of Arctic searches in the annals of polar expeditions and became the death knell for many brave men, crew and rescuers alike.

Author : Brian James
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1599615835

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Ahoy, Ghost Ship Ahead! by Brian James Pdf

While on lookout duty, the students of Pirate School spy a ghost ship following them, and when they bravely board it they receive a warning that may save their lives, if only they can convince Rotten Tooth or the captain that danger lies ahead.

Author : Martin W. Sandler
Publisher : Union Square + ORM
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781402781537

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Resolute by Martin W. Sandler Pdf

The National Book Award–winning author “pulls off a significant historic and literary achievement . . . by melding the stories of two historic searches” (The Associated Press). Acclaimed historian Martin Sandler—a two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, winner of seven Emmy® Awards, and author of more than fifty books—finally brings to light an amazing high-seas adventure. Fascinating rare photographs, paintings, engravings, and maps illustrate the book throughout. It all began when, in one of the biggest news stories of the 19th century, Sir John Franklin and his ships the Erebus and the Terror disappeared while attempting to locate the fabled Northwest Passage. At the request of Franklin’s wife, Lady Jane, the first mission set out from England in hopes of finding him; many others followed in its wake, none successful. Among these was the Resolute, the finest vessel in Queen Victoria’s Navy. But in 1854 it became locked in Arctic ice and was abandoned by its captain. A year later, a Connecticut whaler discovered it 1,200 miles away—drifting and deserted, a 600-ton ghost ship. He and his small crew boarded the Resolute, and steered it through a ferocious hurricane back to New London, Connecticut. The United States government then reoutfitted the ship and returned it to the thankful Queen. In 1879, when the Resolute was finally retired, she had the best timbers made into a desk for then-President Rutherford B. Hayes. It is still used by U.S. presidents today . . . one of the most celebrated pieces of furniture in the White House. “[A] gripping historical adventure.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Richard Middleton
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547015697

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The Ghost Ship by Richard Middleton Pdf

The Ghost Ship is a collection of stories by Richard Barham Middleton. Contents: The Ghost Ship, A Drama of Youth, The New Boy, On the Birghton Road, A Tragedy in Little, Shepherd's Boy, The Story of a Book and many more.

Author : Garth Cameron
Publisher : Fonthill Media
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Umberto Nobile And the Arctic Search for the Airship Italia by Garth Cameron Pdf

By the time it was over, eight of the crew and nine rescuers were dead and scores more had been put in harm’s way. The disappearance and search for the airship Italia was headline news, all over the world, for months after its last radio message on 25 May 1928. It had reported being to the north-east of its base at Kings Bay, on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, returning from a long flight to Greenland and the North Pole. Ships, aircraft and men from many countries converged on Kings Bay to participate in the rescue effort. The Italian airship designer and pilot Umberto Nobile had flown to the North Pole and beyond in 1926. He resolved to return to the Arctic with a new airship in 1928. The expedition had geographical and scientific aims, but the political environment was also an important motivator. Benito Mussolini and his fascist party had come to power in 1922 and a successful expedition to the Arctic would be excellent propaganda.

Author : William Geroux
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780525557470

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The Ghost Ships of Archangel by William Geroux Pdf

An extraordinary story of survival and alliance during World War II: the icy journey of four Allied ships crossing the Arctic to deliver much needed supplies to the Soviet war effort. On the fourth of July, 1942, four Allied ships traversing the Arctic separated from their decimated convoy to head further north into the ice field of the North Pole, seeking safety from Nazi bombers and U-boats in the perilous white maze of ice floes, growlers, and giant bergs. Despite the risks, they had a better chance of survival than the rest of Convoy PQ-17, a fleet of thirty-five cargo ships carrying $1 billion worth of war supplies to the Soviet port of Archangel--the limited help Roosevelt and Churchill extended to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin to maintain their fragile alliance, even as they avoided joining the fight in Europe while the Eastern Front raged. The high-level politics that put Convoy PQ-17 in the path of the Nazis were far from the minds of the diverse crews aboard their ships. U.S. Navy Ensign Howard Carraway, aboard the SS Troubadour, was a farm boy from South Carolina and one of the many Americans for whom the convoy was to be a first taste of war; aboard the SS Ironclad, Ensign William Carter of the U.S. Navy Reserve had passed up a chance at Harvard Business School to join the Navy Armed Guard; from the Royal Navy Reserve, Lt. Leo Gradwell was given command of the HMT Ayrshire, a fishing trawler that had been converted into an antisubmarine vessel. All the while, The Ghost Ships of Archangel turns its focus on Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin, playing diplomatic games that put their ships in peril. The twenty-four-hour Arctic daylight in midsummer gave no respite from bombers, and the Germans wielded the terrifying battleship Tirpitz, nicknamed The Big Bad Wolf. Icebergs were as dangerous as Nazis. As a newly forged alliance was close to dissolving and the remnants of Convoy PQ-17 tried to slip through the Arctic in one piece, the fate of the world hung in the balance.

Author : Megan Cooley Peterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781496673336

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The Flying Dutchman by Megan Cooley Peterson Pdf

The ghost ship The Flying Dutchman has been spotted around the world for centuries. According to legend, this spooky ship is doomed to roam the seas forever, unable to make port. The ship is thought to be a bad omen for anyone who encounters it. Dating back to the 1600s, alleged sightings of the legendary ghost ship continue to this day.

Author : James Fleming
Publisher : Springer
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781935704058

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Weathering the Storm by James Fleming Pdf

This book presents the memoirs of Sverre Pettersen, prominent leader in the field of meteorology. Delving through his recollections of his childhood in Norway, education and work at the famous Bergen school of Meteorology to the World War II crisis and D-Day, Petterssen uncovers the history of meteorology, documenting it from his perspective. Meteorology today is the beneficiary of his work.

Author : Richard Middleton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:251122561

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The Ghost Ship by Richard Middleton Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Tony Crowley
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Search for a Ghost Ship by Anonim Pdf

Author : Claire S. Hanson,Charles R Stearns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Meteorological stations
ISBN : UCSD:31822009558859

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Workshop on the U.S. Antarctic Meteorological Data Delivery System by Claire S. Hanson,Charles R Stearns Pdf

Author : Sara Wheeler
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1429991941

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The Magnetic North by Sara Wheeler Pdf

A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title More than a decade ago, Sara Wheeler traveled to Antarctica to understand a continent nearly lost to myth and lore. In the widely acclaimed, bestselling Terra Incognita, she chronicled her quest to find a hidden history buried in Antarctica's extreme surroundings. Now, Wheeler journeys to the opposite pole to create a definitive picture of life on the fringes. In The Magnetic North, she takes full measure of the Arctic: at once the most pristine place on earth and the locus of global warming. Inspired by the spiraling shape of a reindeer-horn bangle, she travels counterclockwise around the North Pole through the territories belonging to Russia, the United States, Canada, Denmark, Norway, and Finland, marking the transformations of what once seemed an unchangeable landscape. As she witnesses the mounting pollution concentrated at the pole, Wheeler reckons with the illness of the whole organism of the earth. Smashing through the Arctic Ocean with the crew of a Russian icebreaker, shadowing the endless Trans-Alaska Pipeline with a tough Idaho-born outdoorswoman, herding reindeer with the Lapps, and visiting the haunting, deceptively peaceful lands of the Gulag, Wheeler brings the Arctic's many contradictions to life. The Magnetic North is an urgent, beautiful book, rich in dramatic description and vivid reporting. It is a singular, deeply personal portrait of a region growing daily in global importance.

Author : Jeffrey Talanian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0985147660

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Astonishing Swordsmen and Sorcerers of Hyperborea by Jeffrey Talanian Pdf

A Role-Playing Game of Swords, Sorcery, and Weird Fantasy