The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andree and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration Format:Paperback Each month brings surprises

Each month brings surprises

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ISBN-13: 9780307393982

The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andree and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration Format:Paperback Each month brings surprisesIn 1897, at the height of the heroic age of Arctic exploration, the visionary Swedish explorer S. A. Andr e made a revolutionary attempt to discover the North Pole by flying over it in a hydrogen balloon. Thirty three years later, his expedition diaries and papers would be discovered on the ice. Alec Wilkinson uses the explorer's papers and contemporary sources to tell the full story of this ambitious voyage, while also showing how the late 19th