Review of Explorer: the life of Richard E. Byrd, by Lisle A. Rose

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Author: Capelotti, P. J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2009
• Subjects: Byrd; Evelyn; Tromsø; Polar Research
• Online Access: https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/2835; https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v28i2.6122

With his Hollywood good looks, Commander’s stripes, boyish humility, overweening faith in the righteousness of American technological progress, and bags of cash from some of America’s most reactionary Republican businessmen, Richard Evelyn Byrd in the late 1920s stepped neatly into the role of globa...