Byrd, Richard Evelyn

Contains transcripts from the diary of early twentieth-century explorer Richard E. Byrd in which he recorded details of his historic, and disputed flight over the North Pole in 1926, and discussed other aspects of his life and work in the years between 1925 and 1927.

Admiral Richard Byrd recounts his solo Antarctic expedition in 1933 where he suffered symptoms of mental and physical illness due to a defective stovepipe that emitted carbon monoxide.