The Amazing Airship Adventure

The Amazing Airship Adventure
Title The Amazing Airship Adventure PDF eBook
Author Derrick Belanger
Publisher Andrews UK Limited
Pages 60
Release 2015-02-27
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 1780927126

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From the bestselling team of Derrick Belanger and Brian Belanger comes a fun filled mystery adventure for kids of all ages. London, 1897: Ten year old twin detectives, Emma and Jimmy MacDougall, are having dinner with their good friend Sherlock Holmes when terror strikes. A mysterious airship the size of two elephants threatens to blow up 221B Baker Street and even all of England. Who is this mad bomber? Why is he attacking London? Sherlock Holmes can't solve this case alone. It is up to the MacDougall twins to use their wits and skills to find the hidden airship and save the world.

N-4 Down

N-4 Down
Title N-4 Down PDF eBook
Author Mark Piesing
Publisher HarperCollins
Pages 475
Release 2021-08-31
Genre History
ISBN 0062851543

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"GRIPPING. ... One of the greatest polar rescue efforts ever mounted." —Wall Street Journal The riveting true story of the largest polar rescue mission in history: the desperate race to find the survivors of the glamorous Arctic airship Italia, which crashed near the North Pole in 1928. Triumphantly returning from the North Pole on May 24, 1928, the world-famous exploring airship Italia—code-named N-4—was struck by a terrible storm and crashed somewhere over the Arctic ice, triggering the largest polar rescue mission in history. Helping lead the search was Roald Amundsen, the poles’ greatest explorer, who himself soon went missing in the frozen wastes. Amundsen’s body has never been found, the last victim of one of the Arctic’s most enduring mysteries . . . During the Roaring Twenties, zeppelin travel embodied the exuberant spirit of the age. Germany’s luxurious Graf Zeppelin would run passenger service from Germany to Brazil; Britain’s Imperial Airship was launched to connect an empire; in America, the iconic spire of the rising Empire State Building was designed as a docking tower for airships. But the novel mode of transport offered something else, too: a new frontier of exploration. Whereas previous Arctic and Antarctic explorers had subjected themselves to horrific—often deadly—conditions in their attempts to reach uncharted lands, airships held out the possibility of speedily soaring over the hazards. In 1926, the famed Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen—the first man to reach the South Pole—partnered with the Italian airship designer General Umberto Nobile to pioneer flight over the North Pole. As Mark Piesing uncovers in this masterful account, while that mission was thought of as a great success, it was in fact riddled with near disasters and political pitfalls. In May 1928, his relationship with Amundsen corroded beyond the point of collaboration, Nobile, his dog, and a crew of fourteen Italians, one Swede, and one Czech, set off on their own in the airship Italia to discover new lands in the Arctic Circle and to become the first airship to land men on the pole. But near the North Pole they hit a terrible storm and crashed onto the ice. Six crew members were never seen again; the injured (including Nobile) took refuge on ice flows,unprepared for the wretched conditions and with little hope for survival. Coincidentally, in Oslo a gathering of famous Arctic explorers had assembled for a celebration of the first successful flight from Alaska to Norway. Hearing of the accident, Amundsen set off on his own desperate attempt to find Nobile and his men. As the weeks passed and the largest international polar rescue expedition mobilized, the survivors engaged in a last-ditch struggle against weather, polar bears, and despair. When they were spotted at last, the search plane landed—but the pilot announced that there was room for only one passenger. . . . Braiding together the gripping accounts of the survivors and their heroic rescuers, N-4 Down tells the unforgettable true story of what happened when the glamour and restless daring of the zeppelin age collided with the harsh reality of earth’s extremes.

Winsor Mccay. the Airship Adventures of Little Nemo

Winsor Mccay. the Airship Adventures of Little Nemo
Title Winsor Mccay. the Airship Adventures of Little Nemo PDF eBook
Author Winsor McCay
Publisher
Pages 288
Release 2017
Genre Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN 9783836565356

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Let your imagination fly and join Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in his airship adventures to the moon, Mars, and across the United States. These 69 installments published between 1910 and 1911 offer some of the most thrilling artwork and pioneering narrative in McCay's oeuvre. An introduction from art historian Alexander Braun reveals how these...

Airborn

Airborn
Title Airborn PDF eBook
Author Kenneth Oppel
Publisher EOS
Pages 376
Release 2004-05-11
Genre Young Adult Fiction
ISBN

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Sailing toward dawn, and I was perched atop the crow's nest, being the ship's eyes. We were two nights out of Sydney, and there'd been no weather to speak of so far. I was keeping watch on a dark stack of nimbus clouds off to the northwest, but we were leaving it far behind, and it looked to be smooth going all the way back to Lionsgate City. Like riding a cloud. . . . Matt Cruse is a cabin boy on the Aurora, a huge airship that sails hundreds of feet above the ocean, ferrying wealthy passengers from city to city. It is the life Matt's always wanted; convinced he's lighter than air, he imagines himself as buoyant as the hydrium gas that powers his ship. One night he meets a dying balloonist who speaks of beautiful creatures drifting through the skies. It is only after Matt meets the balloonist's granddaughter that he realizes that the man's ravings may, in fact, have been true, and that the creatures are completely real and utterly mysterious. In a swashbuckling adventure reminiscent of Jules Verne and Robert Louis Stevenson, Kenneth Oppel, author of the best-selling Silverwing trilogy, creates an imagined world in which the air is populated by transcontinental voyagers, pirates, and beings never before dreamed of by the humans who sail the skies.

The Last Airship

The Last Airship
Title The Last Airship PDF eBook
Author Christopher Cartwright
Publisher Ashton Publishing Group
Pages 351
Release
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A missing airship with a deadly cargo. . . In 1939 a secret airship departed Germany in the dark of night filled with some of the most influential people of its time, each carrying their most valuable possessions. One such item amongst them was as dangerous as it was priceless. The airship never reached its destination. In present day, ex-military troubleshooter Sam Reilly finds a missing clue about the lost airship. But Sam isn’t the only one hunting for the airship... Some of the most powerful and dangerous men in the world are on his heels, and they'll stop at nothing to get what they want: the opportunity for unlimited power.

Abney Park's Airship Pirates

Abney Park's Airship Pirates
Title Abney Park's Airship Pirates PDF eBook
Author Peter Cakebread
Publisher
Pages 304
Release 2011-08-31
Genre
ISBN 9780857440907

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The Airship Ladyship Adventure

The Airship Ladyship Adventure
Title The Airship Ladyship Adventure PDF eBook
Author Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy
Publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Pages 226
Release 1977
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 9780397317271

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Launched by mistake in a magnificent airship, a young girl embarks on some harrowing adventures.