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Slack.com slash DHQ. This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchler.

I welcome Mark Piesing, author of N4 Down. This is the story of the early part of the

20th century and the search for achievement of that adventure and conquest of the North

Pole, the subtitle, the hunt for the Arctic airship Italia. Mark, congratulations. Good

evening. We go immediately to an exciting scene in your book. July 25th, 1925, we're in

Norway at a house, an Alpine-like house in a part of Norway that is on the bonus fjord

that leads into the house of fjord. The name of the Alpine house is Uran aboard, who is

present at the meeting and why is this important for Arctic exploration? Good evening Mark.

Good evening, John. Thank you very much for having me on your show.

Present at the meeting, you've got some of the main characters of the story. You've got

Raul Damansson, who is obviously the famous Arctic explorer. First man to the South Pole

led the first expedition to the Northwest Passage. You had a boater and nobly who's probably

less well known, who was a genius Italian airship designer, pilot and had aspirations, I

guess you could say, to be a polar explorer. You had Lincoln Ellsworth, who is some of the

audience I know, kind of air to Ellsworth fortunes, he worshipped people like Wyatt, late

on in his life, he wore apparently white-ups, wedding ring for luck, he explored the Antarctic

later on and the Antarctic transpoder flight in the early 1930s is one of the great triumphs

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