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Ice, steel and fire : British explorers in peace and war, 1921-45 /
The generation that reached maturity in the inter war years had grown up in the shadow of the heroic age of Polar exploration and the sacrifices of a generation in the Great War. Their own adventures were to prove as astonishing and heroic as those of a previous generation. The members of the Britis...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Solihull :
Helion,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The generation that reached maturity in the inter war years had grown up in the shadow of the heroic age of Polar exploration and the sacrifices of a generation in the Great War. Their own adventures were to prove as astonishing and heroic as those of a previous generation. The members of the British Arctic air route expedition to Greenland, including Martin Lindsay, Quintin Riley and Freddie Spencer Chapman, were to pioneer the weather research methods necessary for Trans-Atlantic Flight. The university expeditions to Spitsbergen led by George Binney in the 1920s and Sandy Glen in the 1930s t. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (332 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-322) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781909982451 1909982458 |