Disaster at the Pole: The Tragedy of the Airship Italia
and the 1921 Nobile Expedition to the North Pole
Wilbur Cross
In 1928, the airship Italia crashed some three hundred miles from
civilization. Here Cross presents this terrifying tale of tragedy and
survival, the story of the airship's survivors stranded on an ice floe
that begins to break apart into the sea. It's about an international team
of rescuers' determination to find the missing Italians only to be lost
themselves. And it's about the controversy surrounding the rescue of
Nobile while much of his crew perished in the wastelands of the
Arctic.
This summary is courtesy of McNaughton Books