By Airship to the North Pole

P. J. CAPELOTTI is a lecturer in the social sciences department at Pennsylvania State University at Abington and the author of Our Man in the Crimea: Commander Hugo Koehler and the Russian Civil War. He is a Fellow of the Explorers Club and a member of the advisory board for the Program in Maritime History and Archaeology at the University of Hawaii.

List of Illustrations
Preface
A Select Chronology of Northern Expeditions and Events
A Note on Norwegian Geography
Introduction 
PART ONE - History: The aerial Polar expeditions of Salomon A. Andrée and Walter Wellman, 1896-1909
1 Saint of Swedes: The Implacable Mr. Andrée
2 The Greatest Show in the Arctic: The Unsinkable Mr. Wellman
PART TWO - Archaeology: Exploring the aerial Polar base camps of Salomon A. Andrée and Walter Wellman on Danes Island, Spitsbergen, 1993
3 Arctic Ghosts: Technology and Memory on the Island of Airships
4 The Spam What Am: Advertising in Search of a North Pole
5 Broken Dreams: The Airship Wrecks of Danes Island
6 Gasbag or Windbag: Was Wellman a Liar?
Conclusion: Virgo Harbor and the Archeology of Failure
Acknowledgments
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index