VALOR AND TRAGEDY: 3/4: N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia, by Mark Piesing @PorterSqBooks.
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🗓️ 4 September 2023
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https://www.amazon.com/N-4-Down-Arctic-Airship-Italia/dp/0062851527
Triumphantly returning from the North Pole on May 24, 1928, the world-famous exploring airship Italia—code-named N-4—was struck by a terrible storm and crashed somewhere over the Arctic ice, triggering the largest polar rescue mission in history. Helping lead the search was the famed Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, the poles’ greatest explorer, who himself soon went missing in the frozen wastes. Amundsen’s body has never been found, the last victim of one of the Arctic’s most enduring mysteries . . .
During the Roaring Twenties, zeppelin travel embodied the exuberant spirit of the age. Germany’s luxurious Graf Zeppelin would run passenger service from Germany to Brazil; Britain’s Imperial Airship was launched to connect an empire; in America, the iconic spire of the rising Empire State Building was designed as a docking tower for airships
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| 0:35.0 | This is CBS I In The World. |
| 0:37.3 | I'm John Baffer with Mark Pysing. |
| 0:39.3 | His new book is N4 Down, the hunt for the Arctic airship Italia. |
| 0:44.5 | It is now 1928. |
| 0:46.6 | Our hero, our protagonist from Italy, Umberto Noble, |
| 0:50.8 | has put together another expedition to the North Pole. |
| 0:54.7 | This one to top everything, to land at the North Pole, |
| 0:58.4 | perhaps to circumnavigate the Arctic. |
| 1:01.0 | He's got a new airship this time, which he's dubbed the Italian. |
| 1:05.0 | It's no longer sharing with Norway. |
| 1:07.7 | Mark, what is important about the design of the Italia for the Arctic? |
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