# Our polar flight

Author: Amundsen, Roald, 1872-1928; Ellsworth, Lincoln, 1880-1951

Genre: Category: Travel Writing

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71497

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Our+polar+flight+Amundsen&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The day the brothers Wright rose and flew the curtain went up on a new era in the history of mankind. Many were certain that they could see great possibilities opening up for mankind in general, and particularly for them in their own branch of work, but few, I think, saw such possibilities of making a full and complete change in his work as the Polar explorer. What he has tried for years to accomplish would now be possible for him to achieve in a very short space of time. Century after century had he worked with his primitive means, the dog--the sledge. Day after day he had exerted himself with all his craft, all his intelligence, and all his will, yet had only covered a few miles over th...

## Chapters

- [PART I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/our-polar-flight-71497/chapters/4/index.md)
- [PART V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/our-polar-flight-71497/chapters/9/index.md)
- [PART III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/our-polar-flight-71497/chapters/6/index.md)
- [PART II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/our-polar-flight-71497/chapters/5/index.md)
- [PART VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/our-polar-flight-71497/chapters/10/index.md)
- [PART IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/our-polar-flight-71497/chapters/7/index.md)
- [c. After having tried in vain to start the aft motor, Omdal worked](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/our-polar-flight-71497/chapters/8/index.md)
- [PART VI: THE WEATHER 341](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/our-polar-flight-71497/chapters/3/index.md)
- [PART IV: REPORT ABOUT N 24 FROM THE START UNTIL](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/our-polar-flight-71497/chapters/1/index.md)
- [PART V: WHILST WE WAIT 253](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/our-polar-flight-71497/chapters/2/index.md)