Format:
xviii, 368 pages
,
illustrations, maps
,
24 cm
ISBN:
9780803296787
Content:
Part 1. Newsman in the Far North, 1891-1899 1. In Search of Christopher Columbus: The Bahamas, June 1891 -- Arctic Enthusiasm Is an Intermittent Fever: Washington DC, February 1894 -- A Dog Show and the Seven Islands: Belgium, Norway, and Spitsbergen, April-May 1894 -- Shipwrecked at the Hotel White Bear: Spitsbergen, May-July, 1894 -- The President Cannot Be Stampeded: Washington DC, February-May 1898 -- Like Opening a Grave: Northbrook Island, Franz Josef Land, July 28, 1898 -- Tell Them What It Was Like for Us Here: Franz Josef Land, August-December, 1898 -- The Strenuous Life: Franz Josef Land, February-July 1899 -- Part 2. The Insider, 1900-1904 -- The People Are Barely Able to Exist: Washington DC, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, April-August 1902 -- With Johnny D'Mitch and the Coal Barons: Washington DC and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, August-October 1902 -- This Crime against Organized Labor: Colorado and Washington DC, June-December, 1904 -- Part 3. The Polar Airship, 1905-1909 -- Motor Sledges and Airships: Washington DC, 1903-1906 -- The Scheme Was Crazy Enough to Seem Workable: Paris, France, and Tromso, Norway, January-June 1906 -- The Airship Station on Virgo Bay: Danes Island, Spitsbergen, July-August 1906 -- Wellman vs. Peary: Washington DC, November 1906-May 1907 -- Balloons, Aeroplanes, and the Acrobatic Photographer: Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, and France, 1901-1907 -- Go? Of Course. What Else Are We Here For?: Danes Island, Spitsbergen, July-September 1907 -- Lost in a Snowstorm above the Polar Sea: Spitsbergen, September 2, 1907 -- Campaigns and Dollars: Washington DC and various locations, 1908-1909 -- Under the Ice, Over the Ice: Danes Island, Spitsbergen, 1908-1909 -- Nowhere Does His Story Ring True: Norway, Denmark, France, and the United States, September-November 1909 -- Part 4. The Atlantic Ocean, 1910-1912 -- Mr. Wellman's Unbusinesslike Charm: Chicago, New York, and the White Nile River in Egyptian Sudan, February-March 1910 -- The Funniest Damn Ship I Ever Joined: Atlantic City, New Jersey, July-August 1910 -- The Airship, Bringer of Total War and Universal Peace: Osawatomie, Kansas, and Atlantic City, New Jersey, August-September 1910 -- The Aero-Not: Atlantic City, August-October 1910 -- It's Europe or Bust from This Minute On: Atlantic City, October 15, 1910 -- Only a Question of Time When We Blow Up: Atlantic City, New York City, and the Long Island Coast, October 15, 1910 -- The Queen of Spades: Nantucket Shoals, North Atlantic Ocean, October 16, 1910 -- A Sort of Bleeding to Death: North Atlantic Ocean, October 17, 1910 -- CQD: North Atlantic Ocean, October 18, 1910 -- You're All Right, Old Man!: Atlantic City and New York City, October-December 1910 -- New Dreams for the Aerial Age: New York City, Atlantic City, and Akron, Ohio, 1911 -- The Most Perilous Element of All: Atlantic City, October 1911-July 1912 -- Epilogue: New York City, 1912-1934
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index -- Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781496207043
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781496207050
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781496207067
Language:
English
Keywords:
USA
;
Luftschifffahrt
;
Geschichte 1891-1912
;
Wellman, Walter 1858-1934
;
Arktis
;
Entdeckungsreise
;
Geschichte 1891-1912
