LitArk » Books » Non-fiction

Bart - Race to the Top of the World

Here you can read online Bart - Race to the Top of the World full text of the book (entire story) in english for free. Download pdf and epub, get meaning, cover and reviews about this ebook. City: Washington, year: 2014;2013, publisher: Regnery Publishing, genre: Non-fiction. Description of the work, (preface) as well as reviews are available. Best literature library LitArk.com created for fans of good reading and offers a wide selection of genres:

Romance novel Science fiction Adventure Detective Science History Home and family Prose Art Politics Computer Non-fiction Religion Business Children Humor

Choose a favorite category and find really read worthwhile books. Enjoy immersion in the world of imagination, feel the emotions of the characters or learn something new for yourself, make an fascinating discovery.

Book:
Race to the Top of the World
Author:
Bart / Sheldon
Publisher:
Regnery Publishing
Genre:
Books / Non-fiction
Year:
2014;2013
City:
Washington
Rating:
5 / 5
Favourites:
Add to favourites
Your mark:
- 100
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5

Description
Author's other books
Similar books

Race to the Top of the World: summary, description and annotation

We offer to read an annotation, description, summary or preface (depends on what the author of the book "Race to the Top of the World" wrote himself). If you haven't found the necessary information about the book — write in the comments, we will try to find it.

In the age of adventure, when dirigibles coasted through the air and vast swaths of the Earth remained untouched and unseen by man, one pack of relentless explorers competed in the race of a lifetime: to be the first aviator to fly over the North Pole. What inspired their dangerous fascination? For some, it was the romantic theory about a lost world, a hidden continent in the Arctic Ocean. Others were seduced by new aviation technology, which they strove to push to its ultimate limit. The story of their quest is breathtaking and inspiring; the heroes are still a matter of debate.
It was the 1920s. The main players in this high stakes game were Richard Byrd, a dashing Navy officer and early aviation pioneer; and Roald Amundsen, a Viking in the sky, bitter rival of Byrds and a hardened veteran of polar expeditions. Each man was determined to be the first aviator to fly over the North Pole, despite brutal weather conditions, financial disasters, world wars, and...

Bart: author's other books

Who wrote Race to the Top of the World? Find out the surname, the name of the author of the book and a list of all author's works by series.

Race to the Top of the World — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "Race to the Top of the World" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

Table of Contents

For Tom Thorne

For the rise of man is endless;
Every goal is only a tavern for his marching soul,
Only a camp for the night
In mans eternal flight.
Yes, some time he will pass the earthly bars,
Laugh and reach out his hand among the stars.

EDWIN MARKHAM

To the Top of the World, An Ode in honor of
Commander Byrd, whowith Floyd Bennettdiscovered
the North Pole from the air: May 9, 1926

IDOLS

Have you noticed how economical the human race is with its idols?

It sets them up, enjoys them, then falls upon them and devours them until there is nothing left.

Even the complete consumption of the idol, if it is another human being, is not the end. There are then hundreds of years worth of argument and analysis to be worked through.

IDRIES SHAH
Caravan of Dreams

CAST OF CHARACTERS

Richard E. Byrd (18881957): A sharp, photogenic naval officer who carried the fire at the beginning of aerospace. He mastered aviation technology in its infancy and moved it several important steps forward through his own creativity and resourcefulness. He was not a coward, not an alcoholic, and not disliked by his men. There is no foundation whatsoever to the raging controversy over his North Pole flight and no substantial evidence that he was afraid to fly or afraid of anything other than going broke trying to make ends meet at the ends of the earth.

Floyd Bennett (18901928): The quintessential quiet manupright, fearless, and taciturn. The greatest pilot and most beloved figure of early aviation, he had known extreme poverty as a child, and the stigma of the poorhouse had left an indelible mark on his soul.

Roald Amundsen (18721928): Norways greatest explorer, a huge wintry-faced man who beat Robert Falcon Scott to the South Pole in 1911. Stoic, mysterious, a master of polar travel, and a victim of financial mismanagement always one step ahead of a subpoena, he and Byrd began as rivals and ended as good friends.

Robert Peary (18561920): So indomitable on the ice that he could have been played by Charlton Heston. Peary saw the potential of aviation and would have exploited it had he not been fatally misdiagnosed.

Donald B. MacMillan (18741970): Pearys heir and Americas foremost polar explorer until eclipsed by Byrd. MacMillan was the classic rugged individualisttough, crusty, and cantankerous. He always made the right decisions in matters of life and death but was otherwise a loose cannon.

Eugene F. McDonald (18881958): Imagine Humphrey Bogart playing George Steinbrenner. McDonald looked like the former and behaved like the latter at his most tyrannical. After inventing the installment plan for auto buyers, McDonald founded Zenith Radio. He was buddy-buddy with MacMillan and embarked as second in command of MacMillans most ambitious expedition.

Lincoln Ellsworth (18801951): A fabulously wealthy and outwardly timid gentleman, Ellsworth abandoned Park Avenue for the polar frontier. Like his hero, Wyatt Earp, Ellsworth had a core of steel, and he was determined to make his mark as an explorer. He joined forces with Amundsen and competed with Byrd. But he always played by the Marquess of Queensberry rules.

George O. Rex Noville (18901963): Byrd, Bennett, and Noville were once called The Three Musketeers of the Air. Noville was the Aramis of the trio, a celebrated womanizer. He was also an aviator and a fuel engineer who figured out how to warm up aircraft engines in the freezing cold.

Marie Byrd (18891974): Sweet, shy, gracious, Marie was her husband Richards childhood sweetheart and a silent partner in his exploration career. An old friend described her as a brave and smiling woman ... with all of a womans love and anxiety and her need to do something actively to help.

Rollin Arthur Harris (18631918): The man who started the ball rolling. A researcher with the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Harris proved the existence of an uncharted continent in the Arctic Ocean. His monograph launched an international race to find and claim the lost Atlantis of the north.

Robert Bob Bartlett (18751946): The greatest Arctic mariner of the first half of the twentieth century. His life was like a John Ford movie, but unfortunately he looked nothing like John Wayne. An authentic hero miscast as comic relief.

Fitzhugh Green (18881947): Surely the Navys first undercover publicist, Green, a lieutenant commander, described his job as writing and conniving. He was good at both. An old friend of Byrds from the Naval Academy, he sledged across the Arctic and blazed a literary trail in New York.

Bernt Balchen (18991973): A talented aviator, lovable, ambitious, and enigmatic. Balchen became world famous as a result of his association with Byrd but turned on Byrd after a number of later reversals. Perhaps he owed Byrd too much.

George Hubert (eventually Sir Hubert) Wilkins (18881958): An explorer who looked like one. Big, burly, and bearded, Wilkins, an Australian, was backed in the Arctic derby by the city of Detroit.

Albert H. Bumstead (18751940): A cartographer with the National Geographic Society, he created a huge navigation aid the size of small jar. He called it a sun compass.

Bert Acosta (18951954): One of the leading fliers of the hard-drinking, barnstorming era. Acosta looked like Clark Gable, tall and macho, and easily glided from bottle to throttle. He pinch-hit for Floyd Bennett on Byrds transatlantic flight, but the booze took its toll in a critical inning.

Clarence Chamberlin (18931976): Acostas match in the cockpit but his opposite in temperament. Chamberlin was low-key, laid-back, and self-effacing. Quite possibly the only aviator in history to navigate across the Atlantic Ocean by means of the New York Times.

Anthony H. G. Fokker (18901939): A loud, boyish, self-promoting airplane manufacturer known for building high-performance aircraft and pulling lowbrow pranks. His favorite dish was ice cream.

Rodman Wanamaker (18631928): The opposite of Anthony Fokker. A genteel department store magnate who took seriously his role as a corporate citizen. Classical musicians performed in his store. If Wanamaker could have stomached Fokker, Byrd would have beaten Lindbergh to Paris.

Noel Davis (18911927): His classmates at the Naval Academy could envision him as president of the United States. One of the favorites in the transatlantic race until a fatal crash.

Charles A. Lindbergh (19021974): The dark horse in the transatlantic race, Lindy was lucky in numerous ways. Barring a court order, for example, Chamberlin would have been first across the Atlantic.

PART 1

THE TRANSPOLAR FLIGHT

ONE MILLION SQUARE MILES

Captain Bartlett explains it with his finger on the polar map.

You see that white space? Thats unexplored territory.
Theres more than a million square miles of it. We want
to wipe that white space outhe swept his hand across
the bit of blank space. We want to brush it away.

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «Race to the Top of the World»

Look at similar books to Race to the Top of the World. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.

Hunter Stewart

South: Scott and Amundsens Race to the Pole

Tor Bomann-Larsen

Roald Amundsen

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum

Pearys Arctic quest: untold stories from Robert E. Pearys North Pole expeditions

Amundsen Roald

South with the sun: Roald Amundsen, his polar explorations, and the quest for discovery

Amundsen Roald

From Pole to Pole: Roald Amundsens journey in flight

Amundsen Roald

The last Viking: the life of Roald Amundsen

Cook Frederick Albert

True north: Peary, Cook, and the race to the Pole

Anthony Galvin

The Great Polar Fraud: Cook, Peary, and Byrd-How Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole

Joanna Grochowicz

Amundsen’s Way: Race to the South Pole

Richard E. Byrd

Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure

Samantha Seiple

Byrd & Igloo. A Polar Adventure

Stephen R. Bown

The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen

Reviews about «Race to the Top of the World»

Discussion, reviews of the book Race to the Top of the World and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.