TALES FROM THE ERA WHEN THE AIR AGE MET THE STONE AGE

摘要

We earth-bound geographers are inclined to look with a jealous eye upon these fine gentlemen of the air. For they soar up aloft and glide gracefully over the most terrible obstacles.... And we geographers are glad enough to shake hands with them, because we realize what great use aviation may be to geography. When Sir Francis Younghusband, the president of Britain's Royal Geographical Society, made those wistful remarks at'a society meeting in February 1920, explorers had only recently begun using airplanes to visit the few regions of the globe still uncharted by Westerners. But the conditions were right for a new era of increasingly ambitious aerial expeditions.