| The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andree and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration Contributor(s): Wilkinson, Alec (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307741869 ISBN-13: 9780307741868 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Polar Regions - History | Expeditions & Discoveries - Transportation | Aviation - History |
| Dewey: 910.911 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.27" W x 7.97" (0.56 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Arctic/Antarctic - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 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 Andr e's remarkable adventure and illuminates the detail, beauty, and devastating conditions of traveling and dwelling on the ice. |