The Ice Balloon
The Ice Balloon

The Ice Balloon

S. A. Andree and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration

Alec Wilkinson (Author) ... more
Edition: US - Paperback / softback
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HK$105.00 HK$160.00
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Product Info
English • Age Adult - Adult
256 pages • 5.17 x 7.99 x 0.74 in
Approx. weight: 0.56 lb
Publication date: 08 Jan,2013
Barcode: 9780307741868 • Vintage
More books in English for Age Adult - Adult
  • General and world history
  • Geographical discovery and exploration
  • History of other geographical groupings and regions
  • Travel guides: adventure holidays

Description

By: Alec Wilkinson  

In 1897, at the height of the heroic age of Arctic exploration, the visionary Swedish explorer S. A. Andrée 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 Andrée’s remarkable adventure and illuminates the detail, beauty, and devastating conditions of traveling and dwelling on the ice.



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