The Ice Balloon

The Ice Balloon S. A. Andree and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration

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Publisher's Synopsis

In 1897, at the height of the heroic age of Arctic exploration, the visionary Swedish explorer S. A. Andrée 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 century's spirit of exploration and scientific discovery drove over 1,000 explorers to the unforgiving Arctic landscape. Suspenseful and haunting, Wilkinson captures Andrée's remarkable adventure and illuminates the detail, beauty, and devastating conditions of traveling and dwelling on the ice.

Book information

ISBN: 9780307741868
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint: Vintage Books
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 254g
Height: 202mm
Width: 134mm
Spine width: 18mm