{"product_id":"9781775480679","title":"Antonovs over the Arctic: Flying to the North Pole in Russian Biplanes","description":"In the spring of 1928, two men in a single-engine plane took off from the northernmost point in America - Barrow, Alaska. Flying for over 20 hours across the Arctic, they completed a journey to Spitsbergen, Norway, described by their contemporaries Byrd and Amunsden as 'the most remarkable journey ever made'. Seventy years later a team of six explorers set out in a pair of 1947 design Russian biplanes, the Antonov An-2, to recreate that historic journey. Even with modern navigational aids, the problems faced in 1998 were similar to those of the first expedition: temperatures far below zero, dense sea fog, planes full of highly flammable fuel, plus challenges faced by all explorers - building a team, confronting the unknown and probing the limits of human potential. The result is a gripping modern day adventure exploring the remote North.","brand":"Bateman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47136849953008,"sku":"9781775480679","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781775480679_p0.jpg?v=1763709890","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781775480679","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}