This is CBS I on the World with John Bachelor.

This is CBS I on the World with John Bachelor.

This is CBS I in the World. I'm John Bachelor. This is CBS.

I'm the world. I'm John Bachelor.

I welcome Mark Pizing, author of N4 Down.

This is the story of the early part of the 20th century and the search for achievement

of 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 25, 1925, we're in Norway at a house, an alpine-like house in an part of Norway that

it's on the Boonas Fjord that leads into the Osso fjord and the name of the

alpine house is Uranaborg. Who is present at the meeting and why is this important

for Arctic exploration? Good evening Mark.

Good evening John and thank you very much for having me on your show.

Yeah, present at the meeting with you got some of the main characters of the story. You've got Rauled Ullmundsen who is obviously the famous Arctic

Explorer first man to the South Pole and led the first expedition through

the Northwest Passage.

You had, Umberto and Nobley, 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 and you had Lincolnel's worth, some of the audience I know, kind of air to Ellsworth fortunes, he worship people like Wyatt Earp.

Later on in his life he wore apparently White urps wedding ring for luck. He explored the Antarctic

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