Research Catalog

Title

On the top of the world : the Soviet Expedition to the North Pole, 1937 / L. Brontman ; edited and with a foreword by O.J. Schmidt.

Author

Brontman, L. (Lazarʹ)

Publication

London : Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1938.

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Details

Description

287 p. illus.; 23 cm.

Summary

Translation of Na vershinye mira (Moscow, 1938). Soviet flight to the North Pole in 1937.

Alternative Title

• На вершине Мира.
• On top of the world

Subject

• Aeronautics > Flights
• Aeronautics > Soviet Union
• Air travel
• Air travel
• Aeronautics
• Aeronautics > Flights
• Aeronautics > Russia
• Expéditions scientifiques > Arctique
• North Pole
• Arctic Ocean > North Pole
• Soviet Union
• Arctique > Découverte et exploration soviétiques
• Pôle Nord > Découverte et exploration

Genre/Form

Books.

Contents

Foreword -- I. Why we flew to the North Pole -- II. The start -- III. Course, North -- In the line of fire -- A scout over the pole -- Golovins' story -- IV. The Pole conquered -- V. On the top of the world -- May 26th, the first day at the pole -- May 27th, the second day at the Pole -- May 28th, the third day at the Pole -- May 29th, the fourth day at the Pole -- May 30th, the fifth day at the Pole -- May 31st, the sixth day at the Pole -- June 1st, the seventh day at the Pole -- June 2nd, the eight day at the Pole -- June 3rd, the ninth day at the Pole -- June 4th, the tenth day at the Pole -- June 5th, the eleventh day at the Pole -- Farewell to the North Pole -- VI. The valiant Four on the drifting ice-floe -- Ivan Papanin, chief of the North Pole Station -- Ernst Krenkel -- Peter Shirshov -- Eugene Feodorov -- VII. Ice-floe No. 3 -- VIII. Southwards -- IX. On the mainland again -- X. Wireless messages from the North Pole -- A letter to Pravda -- The building of the station -- The warm current -- We will win -- Depth of the ocean, 14,075 feet -- We are not feeling lonely -- 24° above Zero -- A sea-gull has turned up -- A day at the Winter Station -- We heard the hum of Chkalov's aeroplane -- A month on the ice-floe -- Life flows on evenly -- Building goes on -- Our first contact with a wireless amateur -- Blizzard -- Life at the North Pole -- Stormy weather -- We hold sacred the honour of our country -- The first results of our scientific work -- The banquet -- The traffic lights are lit -- Two months on the ice-floe -- Flood -- A letter to all Polar workers -- Scientific observations in July -- Three bears at the Pole -- The drift of our ice-floe -- One hundred and ten days on the drifting ice-floe -- Scientific work at the North Pole -- A working day on the ice-floe -- Appendix : The equipment of the drifting station.

LCCN

38027514

OCLC

• ocm01541977
• 1541977
• SCSB-773797

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library