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

informative fast-paced

4.0

If your familiar with the "canon" of Artic exploration, much of this book will feel like it's more about other explorers rather than S.A. Andrée and his doomed balloon trip across the north pole. 

However, if the subject is new to you, you will appreciate the wide breath this book encompasses in order to establish how perilous the journey Andée attempted to make was.