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| ITALIA CRASH AND SEARCH FOR AMUNDSEN |
| ~ BIBLIOGRAPHY ~ |
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| Note: For an event that captured world-wide attention throughout the summer of 1928 and involved six nations of the world, surprisingly little has been published in book form. |
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| Arnesen, Odd. The Polar Adventure: the Italia Tragedy Seen at |
| Close Quarters. London: Victor Gollancz, 1929. Arnesen was a |
| Norwegian journalist who was in Kings Bay at the time the |
| Italia crash occured. |
| Behounek, Franz. Sieben Wochen auf der Eisscholle. Der |
| Untergang der Nobile Expedition. Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1929. |
| Behounek was the Czech physicist who was onboard the Italia |
| and spent seven weeks on the ice floe. |
| Cross, Wilbur. Disaster at the Pole. The Tragedy of the Airship |
| Italia and the 1928 Nobile Expedition to the North Pole. New |
| York: Lyons Press, 2000. (Reprint of an earlier book titled |
| Ghostship of the Pole). Too many factual inaccuracies and |
| excessive adulation of Nobile mar this account. |
| Giudici, Davide. The Tragedy of the Italia: with the Rescuers to the |
| Red Tent. New York: Appleton & Co., 1929. Giudici was an |
| Italian journalist who was onboard the Krassin, the Russian |
| icebreaker that rescued Italia survivors. |
| Lundborg, Einar. The Arctic Rescue. How Nobile Was Saved. New |
| York: Viking Press, 1929. Lundborg was the Swedish pilot who |
| removed Nobile from the ice floe. |
| Montague, Richard. Oceans, Poles and Airmen. New York Random |
| House, 1971. This book contains a good short account of the |
| Italia tragedy. |
| Nobile, Umberto. My Polar Flights. New York: Putnam, 1961. |
| Nobile's reminiscences of the Italia tragedy as well as the 1926 |
| Norge flight, written many years later. This book makes some |
| rather questionable assertions. |
| Olds, Elizabeth Fagg. Women of the Four Winds. The Adventures |
| of Four of America's First Women Explorers. New York: Mariner |
| Books, 1999. Book contains a short biography of Louise Boyd |
| who led the search for Amundsen in the sealer Hobby. |
| Riiser-Larsen, Hjalmar. Femti År for Kongen. Oslo: Gyldendal |
| Norsk Forl., 1958. Riiser-Larsen's autobiography. |
| Simmons, George H. Target: Arctic. Men in the Skies at the Top of |
| the World. New York: Chilton Books, 1979. Extensive history of |
| Arctic aviation including a detailed account of the Italia |
| tragedy. Highly recommended. |
| Trojani, Felice. La coda di Minosse. Milan: Mursia & Co., 1964. |
| Trojani was a member of the Italia crew who survived the crash |
| and was on the ice floe for seven weeks |
| Van Dongen, Sjef. Vilf Jaar in Iis en Sneeuw. Mijn leven in het |
| noorpolgebied. Amsterdam: Scheltens & Giltay, nd. Van |
| Dongen was living at Barentsburg, Spitsbergen at the time of |
| the Italia crash and took part in the rescue operations. |
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| For more information . . . |
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| WEBSITES: |
| UMBERTO NOBILE - THE NORTH POLE FLIGHTS |
| LOUISE BOYD. Short biographical sketch. |
| HJALMAR RIISER-LARSEN. Short biographical sketch. |
| THE ITALIA SEARCH - THE HALL COLLECTION. An extensive |
| site picturing philatelic items related to the Italia rescue |
| operations. Highly recommended. |
| DISASTER AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD. Online copy of an |
| informative article on the Italia disaster, from Aviation History |
| magazine. |
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| VIDEO TAPE: |
| THE RED TENT. A fictionalized, highly imaginative, "docu-drama" |
| based on the Italia crash is available on video tape. Entertaining, |
| but this fictional version should not, by any means, be |
| considered an accurate account of the Italia tragedy. |
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