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This little world was surrounded by almost impenetrable mysteries. In the North, fog and frost made a chaotic, unstable element of land, sea, and air.
In the South, the burning sun melted land and sea into one boiling, seething mass. And far, far away, beyond mystic jungles and inaccessible mountains were the eastern wonderlands of golden towers, precious stones, and fragrant spices - mysterious Cathay, and perhaps even the Terrestrial Paradise.
The Conquest of the Atlantic, by husband and wife team Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire, offers a dramatic presentation of the history of the Atlantic in an unbroken chain of events following the voyages of the Viking Dragon ships. The book discusses the age of exploration, the development of faster sailing ships and trade, then moves to the depths and heights of the Atlantic conquest with radio communication, submarines, dirigibles, and airplanes.
Written in 1933, this book was written after the famous flights of Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart, and after the lesser-known exploit of Italian General Balbo's taking a flotilla of seaplanes from Italy, via Greenland, to Chicago and return via the Azores. But it could only imagine the abilities of today's aircraft.
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