The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andree and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration by Alec Wilkinson

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

Alec Wilkinson

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nonfiction biography history adventurous slow-paced

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In this grand and astonishing account, Alec Wilkinson brings us the story of S. A. Andr e, the visionary Swedish aeronaut who, in 1897, during the great age of Arctic endeavor, left to discover the North Pole by flying to it in a hydrogen balloon....

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