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Book Synopsis Maglia Rosa 2nd Edition by : Herbie Sykes
Download or read book Maglia Rosa 2nd Edition written by Herbie Sykes and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [This book] is the definitive history of the Giro d'Italia, written by Turin resident and regular Rouleur contributor Herbie Sykes. Sykes takes the reader on an inspiring, magical journey. In so doing he evokes 100 years of the race for the maglia rosa, the mythical pink jersey of the race leader.
Download or read book N-4 Down written by Mark Piesing and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "GRIPPING. ... One of the greatest polar rescue efforts ever mounted." —Wall Street Journal The riveting true story of the largest polar rescue mission in history: the desperate race to find the survivors of the glamorous Arctic airship Italia, which crashed near the North Pole in 1928. 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 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. But the novel mode of transport offered something else, too: a new frontier of exploration. Whereas previous Arctic and Antarctic explorers had subjected themselves to horrific—often deadly—conditions in their attempts to reach uncharted lands, airships held out the possibility of speedily soaring over the hazards. In 1926, the famed Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen—the first man to reach the South Pole—partnered with the Italian airship designer General Umberto Nobile to pioneer flight over the North Pole. As Mark Piesing uncovers in this masterful account, while that mission was thought of as a great success, it was in fact riddled with near disasters and political pitfalls. In May 1928, his relationship with Amundsen corroded beyond the point of collaboration, Nobile, his dog, and a crew of fourteen Italians, one Swede, and one Czech, set off on their own in the airship Italia to discover new lands in the Arctic Circle and to become the first airship to land men on the pole. But near the North Pole they hit a terrible storm and crashed onto the ice. Six crew members were never seen again; the injured (including Nobile) took refuge on ice flows,unprepared for the wretched conditions and with little hope for survival. Coincidentally, in Oslo a gathering of famous Arctic explorers had assembled for a celebration of the first successful flight from Alaska to Norway. Hearing of the accident, Amundsen set off on his own desperate attempt to find Nobile and his men. As the weeks passed and the largest international polar rescue expedition mobilized, the survivors engaged in a last-ditch struggle against weather, polar bears, and despair. When they were spotted at last, the search plane landed—but the pilot announced that there was room for only one passenger. . . . Braiding together the gripping accounts of the survivors and their heroic rescuers, N-4 Down tells the unforgettable true story of what happened when the glamour and restless daring of the zeppelin age collided with the harsh reality of earth’s extremes.
Download or read book Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Booklist written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Independent written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Disaster at the Pole by : Wilbur Cross
Download or read book Disaster at the Pole written by Wilbur Cross and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of the harrowing wreck of the airship Italia during a polar expedition and the heroic rescue attempts to save her and her crew. This is an intriguing and heart-stopping account of the tragic aviation disaster of Commander Umberto Nobile, an Italian aeronautic engineer and airship designer, as he led an expedition to cross the North Pole in the dirigible airship, Italia. Nobile and Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen had previously led the first successful trip across the North Pole from Europe to America in the airship Norge, beating the attempts by American explorer Admiral Richard Byrd, during history's exciting period known as the Golden Age of Aviation. During an artic storm, the Italia suddenly crashed on an ice pack and the crew was stranded, leading to one of the world's greatest international search and rescue efforts, involving countries such as Russia, Norway, Italy, France and Great Britain.The story is both of the tremendous efforts and heroism of the many search and rescue expeditions, including internationally famous artic explorer Roald Amundsen, who was never seen again, as well as the courage and determination of Nobile and the Italia crew as they battled the elements of the polar ice fields for survival. The event also stirred international politics as Nobile was a well-known opponent to Mussolini's fascist regime and Mussolini is said to have thwarted the successful rescue of Nobile and his crew.In researching this book, author Cross personally went to Italy and interviewed Umberto Nobile as well as nine other survivors from the crash. He also worked with and interviewed the officers at the Norwegian airbase from which the Italia flew on its fatal flight. Additional information came from the Dartmouth University Institute of Artic Studies, including interviews with renowned artic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansseon, who personally knew General Nobile.
Book Synopsis The Italian Tragedy in the Renaissance by : Salvatore Di Maria
Download or read book The Italian Tragedy in the Renaissance written by Salvatore Di Maria and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the Renaissance revitalization of classical drama. Using a cultural and theatrical approach, it shows how Italian playwrights made ancient tragedy relevant to their audiences. The book challenges the traditional critical approach to the Italian Renaissance tragedy as a mere literary work, and calls attention to the complementary function of the theatrical text, which is 'reconstructed' from the stage directions embedded in the discourse of the characters.
Download or read book Unity written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Nation and Athenæum written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canti written by Giacomo Leopardi and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giacomo Leopardi is Italy's greatest modern poet, the first European writer to portray and examine the self in a way that feels familiar to us today. A great classical scholar and patriot, he explored metaphysical loneliness in entirely original ways. Though he died young, his influence was enormous, and it is no exaggeration to say that all modern poetry, not only in Italian, derives in some way from his work. Galassi, whose translations of Eugenio Montale have been widely acclaimed, has produced a strong, fresh, direct version of this great poet that offers English-language readers a new approach to Leopardi.
Download or read book Shelley's CENCI written by Stuart Curran and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shelley's tragedy, The Cenci, has been regarded as an avant-garde attack on orthodox Christian principles, a celebrated cause for Victorian intellectuals, a vehicle for innovative minds of the theater, a historical oddity, a neglected masterpiece. Derived from the dark legends of one of Rome's great families, the Cenci records a history of sadism, incest, and murder. Shelley's one actable play has received little attention in modern times. Professor Curran studies it first as a poem-its patterns, themes, imagery-then as a play. After showing its relationship to England's Regency theater, he analyzes the fascinating course of its stage history, and finds Shelley foreshadowing such modern emphases as psychodrama, the existential vision, the Theatre of Cruelty. Originally published in 1970. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Book Synopsis The World's Work by : Walter Hines Page
Download or read book The World's Work written by Walter Hines Page and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of our time.
Book Synopsis Recent Geographical Literature, Maps and Photographs by : Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)
Download or read book Recent Geographical Literature, Maps and Photographs written by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Golden Book Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bibliography of Aeronautics. Pt. 1-50 by : United States. Work Projects Administration
Download or read book Bibliography of Aeronautics. Pt. 1-50 written by United States. Work Projects Administration and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
