I really enjoyed chatting to award-winning podcast producer Kenneth M Sweeney for The Comfortable Spot Podcast about some of the bigger issues that my critically acclaimed book N-4 DOWN the hunt for the Arctic airship Italia (Mariner Books/ HarperCollins) addresses…
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Read The Wall Street Journal review
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See my talk about N-4 DOWN for New York’s famous The Explorer’s Club here.
Listen to my interview with CBS radio here.
Notes
3:45 why people are fascinated by polar stories
4:55 the realization that science cannot help you in the Arctic
6:00 the story behind N-4 DOWN
7:00 the Fascist connection
9:00 legacy of Umberto Nobile
10:22 the role of Roald Amundsen in the story
12:50 the comparison of Umberto Nobile’s leadership with Scott and Shackleton
20:50 the big egos and technology rivalries of the 2020s compared to the 1920s
29:00 what we can learn from the story of N-4 DOWN
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