{"product_id":"9780898752878","title":"First Crossing of the Polar Sea","description":"On May 12th, 1926, at 1:30 in the morning Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth looked down from the cabin of the airship Norge and knew that they were over the North Pole.\u003cp\u003e It was a busy moment. They dropped flags - the American, the Norwegian, and the Italian. Two of them, Amundsen and Oscar Wisting had seen the South Pole - from dog sleds. The third, Lincoln Ellsworth, saw the culmination of years of planning the conquest of the Arctic by air.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Radio messages were dispatched, observations made and the pole circled. Then the Norge swung back into her course - a course whose thin tracing over the uncharted wastes was followed by millions - and pointed for Alaska.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Thus briefly the story of the flight. Yet into the forty-eight hours in the air were packed all the excitement, the hopes and fears and thrills and mishaps and prayers of a season of polar exploration on the ground. This is the history, written by the leaders themselves, of one of the most remarkable exhibitions of daring and skill ever recorded.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of the Pacific","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47019957911792,"sku":"9780898752878","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780898752878_p0.jpg?v=1763861100","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780898752878","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}