ICE BALLOON PB

ICE BALLOON PB image
ISBN-10:

0007460031

ISBN-13:

9780007460038

Author(s): Wilkinson, Alec
Released: Jan 01, 2013
Format: Paperback, 239 pages
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Description:

In 1897, at the height of the heroic age of Arctic exploration, the visionary Swedish explorer S. A. Andree 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 Andree`s remarkable adventure and illuminates the detail, beauty, and devastating conditions of traveling and dwelling on the ice


























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