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General Non-Fiction

Ottantesimo parallelo

(Eightieth Parallel)

Adriano Salani Editore, April 2023, pp.280

A woman, her passion for science and an endeavour never undertaken before: to reach the North Pole in order to locate the wreckage of the airship Italia ninety years after the last research expedition, and to finally discover the truth.

An unequalled journey through the ice to study the environment as well as the human drive to go beyond the boundaries of knowledge.

In 1928, the airship Italia – the first flying science laboratory – crashes on pack ice off the Svalbard archipelago, with Italy’s greatest explorer, Umberto Nobile, as well as his crew, on board. The survivors get lost on the ice, in a tent, in dreadul conditions, unable to communicate their location. A large international expedition finds them and rescues them several weeks later. No one has ever discovered what truly happened and nobody has ever searched for the airship’s wreckage. Ninety years later, Paola Catapano and a group of scientists put together a new expedition, Polarquest2018, in a sailboat, to travel to that spot for the first time since that first SOS.

Adriano Salani Editore, April 2023, pp.280

Paola Catapano

Paola Catapano is a science communicator at the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, where she has been working for almost thirty years. She has taken part in research expeditions to faraway places all over the world. In her role as an author and TV presenter, she has made forty popularisation series and reports for RAI Educational for children as well as adults. She has published many scientific papers but this is her first book.

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