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Flight to the Top of the World - The Adventures of Walter Wellman (Hardcover)
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Flight to the Top of the World - The Adventures of Walter Wellman (Hardcover)
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In his day Walter Wellman (1858-1934) was one of America's most
famous men. To his contemporaries, he seemed like a character from
a Jules Verne novel. He led five expeditions in search of the North
Pole, two by dogsled and three by dirigible airship, and in 1910
made the first attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean by air--which
the self-styled expert on aerial warfare saw as a mission of world
peace. He endured hardships, cheated death on more than one
occasion, and surrounded himself with a team of assistants as
eccentric and audacious as he was. In addition to his daring
adventures, Wellman became a nationally known political reporter
and unofficial spokesman for the McKinley and Roosevelt
administrations. He was not the first newspaper-sponsored
adventurer, but more than any of his predecessors he turned
exploration into a real-time media event, and his reputation both
flourished and suffered because of it. Wellman lived during a time
of rapid social and technological change, when explorers were
racing to fill in the last remaining blank spots on the map and
when aviation promised to fulfill humanity's greatest hopes and
darkest fears. Flight to the Top of the World is a window into
Wellman's time and illuminates many of its dreams and
contradictions.
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