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

The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andrée 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 this grand and astonishing tale, Alec Wilkinson brings us the story of S. A. Andrée, 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. Ca...

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