Product Description: In Gilded Age America, Arctic explorers were fabulous celebrities—assured of riches and near-immortality so long as they reached the North Pole first. Of the many attempts to meet that goal, three American expeditions, launched from the Russian archipelago of Franz Josef Land, ended in abject failure, their exploits consigned to near-oblivion...read more

Product Description: “Opens the door to one of the least known areas of naval warfare in World War II. Highly recommended.”—Ships Monthly “Novak tells the sort of war story that rarely makes it into the history books but deserves to be remembered...read more

Product Description: Mentioned in BBC News: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24281727 Benjamin Leigh Smith discovered and named dozens of islands in the Arctic but published no account of his pioneering explorations. He refused public accolades and sent stand-ins to deliver the results of his work to scientific societies...read more

Product Description: Franz Josef Land is a forbidding place, isolated by geography and history. Lying above the Arctic Circle in the northernmost province of Russia, this remote series of islands was only discovered by Westerners in 1873, and remains little known today...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: It was the original Survivor series, only without the omnipresent cameras, paramedics, and faux tribal rituals. Between the spring of 1947 and the summer of the year 2000, more than forty expeditions sought to drift across the oceans of the world on rafts made from straw, from bamboo, and from the same kinds of wood that children use to make model airplanes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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A written and illustrated history of the first two attempts to reach the North Pole by airship investigates the stories behind the quests and explains how the stories were created and reported by journalists.

Product Description: Book by Capelotti, P. J.

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Product Description: Book by Capelotti, P. J.