Lincoln Ellsworth

This is a fascinating, real life story of a frail boy, born and reared in luxury, who chose for himself a life of rigorous adventure and hardship in the uncharted wastes of the world. Explorer in both the Arctic and Antarctic, conqueror of both poles, Lincoln Ellsworth's life embraces the maximum of excitement and adventure.

Search is a typically American document - a true transcription of the hazards and ideals of a man we like to think of as representative. What Lincoln Ellsworth has done in his life, all American men and boys would like to do, or lacking the opportunity, at least like to read about - hunting buffalo and Rocky Mountain sheep, living among Canadian Indians, dragging a surveyor's chain across unmarked Western prairies, prospecting for gold in Alaska, piloting an airplane in France, and recently, scouting for new land in the Arctic Circle from gondola of the Graf Zeppelin.

Narrative of the Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nobile North Polar Flight, 1926, in the airship Norge from King's Bay, West Spitsbergen, over the North Pole to Teller, Alaska.