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

256 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction biography history adventurous slow-paced
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In 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 d...

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