The aerial age : a thousand miles by airship over the Atlantic Ocean; airship voyages over the Polar Sea, the past, the present and the future of aerial navigation (1911)
Wellman, Walter, 1858- · New York : A.R. Keller · leaf 24
reached XorthSpitzbergen with his sailing ships. Thence, inthe summer season, with heavy ships boatsweighing a ton or more each, only ordinarysailors, and no sj^ecial equipment, he had set outto sledge and pull the clumsy boats over therough sea ice toward the Pole. Despite thehandicap of heavy… … FROM EARTH TO AIR 17 expedition beat it about thirty miles in 188^, inNorth Greenland. Believing that if Parry could do as well asthis in the summer season, with such heavy boats,much more might be done with lighter craft anda more modern equipment, I visited Norway in1893 to investigate conditions…
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