The Resource Antarctica's lost aviator : the epic adventure to explore the last frontier on earth, Jeff Maynard
Antarctica's lost aviator : the epic adventure to explore the last frontier on earth, Jeff Maynard
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- Summary
- The astonishing voyage of the first solo crossing of Antarctica by the unlikeliest of arctic explorers. By the 1930s, no one had yet crossed Antarctica, and its vast interior remained a mystery frozen in time. Hoping to write his name in the history books, wealthy American Lincoln Ellsworth announced he would fly across the unexplored continent. And to honor his hero, Wyatt Earp, he would carry his gun belt on the flight. The main obstacles to Ellsworth's ambition were numerous: he didn't like the cold, he avoided physical work, and he couldn't navigate. Consequently, he hired the experienced Australian explorer, Sir Hubert Wilkins, to organize the expedition on his behalf. While Ellsworth battled depression and struggled to conceal his homosexuality, Wilkins purchased a ship, hired a crew, and ordered a revolutionary new airplane constructed. The Ellsworth Trans-Antarctic Expeditions became epics of misadventure, as competitors plotted to beat Ellsworth, pilots refused to fly, crews mutinied, and the ship was repeatedly trapped in the ice. Finally, in 1935, Ellsworth took off to fly from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea. A few hours after leaving, radio contact with him was lost and the world gave him up for dead. Antarctica's Lost Aviator brings alive one of the strangest episodes in polar history, using previously unpublished diaries, correspondence, photographs, and film to reveal the amazing true story of the first crossing of Antarctica and how, against all odds, it was achieved by the unlikeliest of heroes
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Pegasus Books paperback edition.
- Extent
- xvi, 251 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781643136844
- Label
- Antarctica's lost aviator : the epic adventure to explore the last frontier on earth
- Title
- Antarctica's lost aviator
- Title remainder
- the epic adventure to explore the last frontier on earth
- Statement of responsibility
- Jeff Maynard
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The astonishing voyage of the first solo crossing of Antarctica by the unlikeliest of arctic explorers. By the 1930s, no one had yet crossed Antarctica, and its vast interior remained a mystery frozen in time. Hoping to write his name in the history books, wealthy American Lincoln Ellsworth announced he would fly across the unexplored continent. And to honor his hero, Wyatt Earp, he would carry his gun belt on the flight. The main obstacles to Ellsworth's ambition were numerous: he didn't like the cold, he avoided physical work, and he couldn't navigate. Consequently, he hired the experienced Australian explorer, Sir Hubert Wilkins, to organize the expedition on his behalf. While Ellsworth battled depression and struggled to conceal his homosexuality, Wilkins purchased a ship, hired a crew, and ordered a revolutionary new airplane constructed. The Ellsworth Trans-Antarctic Expeditions became epics of misadventure, as competitors plotted to beat Ellsworth, pilots refused to fly, crews mutinied, and the ship was repeatedly trapped in the ice. Finally, in 1935, Ellsworth took off to fly from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea. A few hours after leaving, radio contact with him was lost and the world gave him up for dead. Antarctica's Lost Aviator brings alive one of the strangest episodes in polar history, using previously unpublished diaries, correspondence, photographs, and film to reveal the amazing true story of the first crossing of Antarctica and how, against all odds, it was achieved by the unlikeliest of heroes
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- Maynard, Jeff
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- Ellsworth, Lincoln
- Adventure and adventurers
- Missing persons
- Antarctica
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- Antarctica's lost aviator : the epic adventure to explore the last frontier on earth, Jeff Maynard
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- Dimensions
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- First Pegasus Books paperback edition.
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- xvi, 251 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
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- 9781643136844
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- First Pegasus Books paperback edition.
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- xvi, 251 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
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- 9781643136844
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