historian and author
Walter Wellman was a famous journalist, polar explorer, and airship captain in the early twentieth century. But at the very peak of his celebrity in 1910, he was suddenly upstaged by a cat.
Just as he is going to be in this post.
Coming July 2018 from University of Nebraska Press
In his day Walter Wellman (1858–1934) was one of America’s most famous men. To his contemporaries, he seemed like a character from a Jules Verne novel. He led five expeditions in search of the North Pole, two by dogsled and three by dirigible airship, and in 1910 made the first attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean by air—which the self-styled expert on aerial warfare saw as a mission of world peace. He endured hardships, cheated death on more than one occasion, and surrounded himself with a team of assistants as eccentric and audacious as he was. Keep reading.
