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The Diary and Notebook of Richard E. Byrd.
Byrd & Goerler, ed. First to fly over the North Pole - or was he? Some have doubted that Byrd actually reached the North Pole in his 1926 flight. This diary, unearthed in 1994, might be thought to clear up the matter, but instead it complicates them. Whatever the truth, the riskiness of polar exploration comes through in Byrd's diary and notes, which mention coming through storms and icebergs, as well as allude to the fate of Robert Scott, who perished in the race to the South Pole with Roald Amundsen (who perished in the race with Byrd to overfly the North Pole). A concluding section discusses Byrd's competition with Lindbergh to be the first flier across the Atlantic. 168 pgs., 6"x 9", hdbd.
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