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The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andree and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration (Vintage)
The Ice Balloon S A Andree and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration - Vintage
Author: 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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780307741868
ISBN-10: 0307741869
Publication Date: 1/8/2013
Pages: 256
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Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
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