The Coldest Crucible - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Coldest Crucible write by Michael F. Robinson. This book was released on 2010-11-15. The Coldest Crucible available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the late 1800s, “Arctic Fever” swept across the nation as dozens of American expeditions sailed north to the Arctic to find a sea route to Asia and, ultimately, to stand at the North Pole. Few of these missions were successful, and many men lost their lives en route. Yet failure did little to dampen the enthusiasm of new explorers or the crowds at home that cheered them on. Arctic exploration, Michael F. Robinson argues, was an activity that unfolded in America as much as it did in the wintry hinterland. Paying particular attention to the perils facing explorers at home, The Coldest Crucible examines their struggles to build support for the expeditions before departure, defend their claims upon their return, and cast themselves as men worthy of the nation’s full attention. In so doing, this book paints a new portrait of polar voyagers, one that removes them from the icy backdrop of the Arctic and sets them within the tempests of American cultural life. With chronological chapters featuring emblematic Arctic explorers—including Elisha Kent Kane, Charles Hall, and Robert Peary—The Coldest Crucible reveals why the North Pole, a region so geographically removed from Americans, became an iconic destination for discovery.
The Coldest Crucible
The Coldest Crucible - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Coldest Crucible write by Michael Frederick Robinson. This book was released on 2002. The Coldest Crucible available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Lost White Tribe
The Lost White Tribe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lost White Tribe write by Michael Frederick Robinson. This book was released on 2016. The Lost White Tribe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Michael F. Robinson traces the rise and fall of the Hamitic Hypothesis, the theory that whites had lived in Africa since antiquity, which held sway in Europe and in Africa in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Inventing the American Astronaut
Inventing the American Astronaut - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inventing the American Astronaut write by Matthew H. Hersch. This book was released on 2012-10-08. Inventing the American Astronaut available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Who were the men who led America's first expeditions into space? Soldiers? Daredevils? The public sometimes imagined them that way: heroic military men and hot-shot pilots without the capacity for doubt, fear, or worry. However, early astronauts were hard-working and determined professionals - 'organization men' - who were calm, calculating, and highly attuned to the politics and celebrity of the Space Race. Many would have been at home in corporate America - and until the first rockets carried humans into space, some seemed to be headed there. Instead, they strapped themselves to missiles and blasted skyward, returning with a smile and an inspiring word for the press. From the early days of Project Mercury to the last moon landing, this lively history demystifies the American astronaut while revealing the warring personalities, raw ambition, and complex motives of the men who were the public face of the space program.
The Right Stuff
The Right Stuff - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Right Stuff write by Tom Wolfe. This book was released on 2008-03-04. The Right Stuff available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tom Wolfe at his very best" (The New York Times Book Review), The Right Stuff is the basis for the 1983 Oscar Award-winning film of the same name and the 8-part Disney+ TV mini-series. From "America's nerviest journalist" (Newsweek)--a breath-taking epic, a magnificent adventure story, and an investigation into the true heroism and courage of the first Americans to conquer space. " Millions of words have poured forth about man's trip to the moon, but until now few people have had a sense of the most engrossing side of the adventure; namely, what went on in the minds of the astronauts themselves - in space, on the moon, and even during certain odysseys on earth. It is this, the inner life of the astronauts, that Tom Wolfe describes with his almost uncanny empathetic powers, that made The Right Stuff a classic.
