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Can I read To the Pole : the diary and notebook of Richard E. Byrd, 1925-1927 on EtoBox?
To the Pole : the diary and notebook of Richard E. Byrd, 1925-1927 by Richard Evelyn Byrd, Raimund E. Goerler is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is To the Pole : the diary and notebook of Richard E. Byrd, 1925-1927 about?
Around the turn of the 20th century, polar exploration became the symbol of national pride and individual worth. Ernest Shackleton, Robert Scott, Roald Amundsen, and Robert Peary, among others, ensured themselves a place in history for their daring assaults on two of the most inhospitable regions on earth: the North and South Poles. In the course of their explorations, these men pitted themselves against a merciless landscape--Shackleton's ship was crushed in Antarctic ice; Scott and four companions died in a howling blizzard on their way back from the South Pole. If walking to the Poles was difficult, flying there presented its own set of problems. Yet, in 1926 Admiral Richard E. Byrd and his pilot, Floyd Bennett, set out to fly over the North Pole. According to Byrd, they succeeded. In the decades since this feat, a shadow of doubt has crept over Byrd's claim. Critics question whether Byrd could have flown to the Pole and back in the amount of time that actually elapsed between his takeoff and return to Spitsbergen, Greenland; allegations that Byrd's calculations were incorrect bolstered hearsay gossip that Bennett had told another pilot that they'd never reached
Who reads To the Pole : the diary and notebook of Richard E. Byrd, 1925-1927?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Richard Evelyn Byrd, Raimund E. Goerler
- Publisher
- Ohio State University Press
- Published
- 1998
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780814208007
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Travel, History, Biography
