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Conquerors of the World's Last Frontiers - One day in 1892, when Lincoln Ellsworth was 12 years old, he looked through his father's oversized atlas and became intrigued by the blank spaces marked "Unexplored: that capped both ends of the earth and dotted several continents. "Why don't people go there?" he wondered. "What can be in those white places?" In the early years of the century and right up to World War II, a handful of brave men and women went in search of the answers. Among them was Ellsworth, who won renown as a polar explorer. These pioneers were aided in their quest by the development of long-range aircraft that enabled them not only to vault the barriers that had held others back but to see in hours what would have taken days, weeks and even years of patient slogging by any other means.… (more)
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Lavishly illustrated with photographs, drawings, and maps, “The Explorers” takes a comprehensive look at the early aviators determined to conquer the seeming unconquerable as these early aviators sought to banish the unknown. Part of The Epic of Flight series, these are the aerial explorers expanding our knowledge of our home planet.
Recommended for readers interested in aerial exploration, early aviation, and polar exploration.