Realm of ice and sky : triumph, tragedy, and history's greatest Arctic rescue /
National Outdoor Book Award-winning author Buddy Levy's thrilling narrative of polar exploration via airship and the men who sacrificed everything to make history. Arctic explorer and American visionary Walter Wellman pioneered both polar and transatlantic airship aviation, making history'...
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
[2025].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prelude
- Prologue
- Part one: The pioneer : the remarkable Walter Wellman. The Ice King wins
- The Wellman Chicago Record-Herald Expedition
- The America
- Camp Wellman
- Rebuilding the America
- Winds of change
- Madness
- "What can be done shall be done"
- Airship over the polar sea
- Last gasp of the polar dream
- Controversy and a new dream
- The biggest thing in the world
- Wellman's final flight
- A hero's journey
- Part two: The white eagle of Norway : Roald Amundsen and the Norge. The end of the heroic age of exploration : the birth of the golden age of flight
- "A race with death"
- "You're supposed to be dead"
- Resurrection
- The fascist's airship
- The most sensational sporting event in human history
- Beyond horizons
- Flying blind
- Bad blood
- "Honor and glory enough to go around."