{"product_id":"realm-of-ice-and-sky-9781250289186","title":"Realm of Ice and Sky","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNational Outdoor Book Award-winning author Buddy Levy's thrilling narrative of polar exploration via airship\u003c\/b\u003e-\u003cb\u003eand the men who sacrificed everything to make history.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArctic explorer and American visionary Walter Wellman pioneered both polar and trans-Atlantic airship aviation, making history's first attempts at each. Wellman has been cast as a self-promoting egomaniac known mostly for his catastrophic failures. Instead he was a courageous innovator who pushed the boundaries of polar exploration and paved the way for the ultimate conquest of the North Pole-which would be achieved not by dogsled or airplane, but by airship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmerican explorer Dr. Frederick Cook was the first to claim he made it to the North Pole in 1908. A year later, so did American Robert Peary, but both Cook's and Peary's claims had been seriously questioned. There was enough doubt that Norwegian explorer extraordinaire Roald Amundsen-who'd made history and a name for himself by being first\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49990030066007,"sku":"9781250289186","price":24.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781250289186.jpg?v=1739543374","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/realm-of-ice-and-sky-9781250289186","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}