4/4: The last of Amundsen. N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia, by Mark Piesing @PorterSqBooks. Hardcover – August 31, 202

photo:  Italia at Stolp, Pomerania, in April 1928, before embarking on the polar flights


4/4: The last of Amundsen.  4/4: N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia,  by Mark Piesing  @PorterSqBooks.  Hardcover – August 31, 202


4/4: N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia,  by Mark Piesing  @PorterSqBooks.  Hardcover – August 31, 2021   


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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Description provided by the archive when the original description is incomplete or wrong. You can help by reporting errors and typos at Commons:Bundesarchiv/Error reports.Stolp / Pommern.- Luftschiffhafen Seddin. Landung des Luftschiffs "Italia". General Umberto Nobile in der GondelTitle

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Die glückliche Landung des Nordpol-Luftschiffes "Italia" in Stolp in Pommern! Nach 30 stündigem Fluge landete das italienische Nordpolluftschiff "Italia" unter Führung des Generals Nobile wohlbehalten in Stolp in Pommern. Eine Stabiliesierungsfläche am Luftschiff wurde im Gewittersturm stark beschädigt. General Nobile der Führer des Luftschiffes "Italia" in der Kabine kurz vor der Landung.Depicted place

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