[PDF.04pi] The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andree and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration

The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andree and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration

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 | #1362221 in Books |  Vintage |  2013-01-08 |  2013-01-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  7.99 x.74 x5.17l,.56 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Ice ballon story filler|By rcl|As several others have noted, this book does not spend much time (only 30% of the book) on the actual journey and activities of Andree and his crew after their launch. They don't get off the ice in their ballon until page 148, and are dead on page 221 (total pages in the book 239). Another major gripe is the total lack of a map that is readable an|.com | Best Books of the Month, January 2012: Before the twentieth century, more than a thousand people tried to reach the (north) pole,” Alec Wilkinson writes in his entertaining new book. Most of those attempts were by ship, sled, and f

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 1...

You easily download any file type for your device.The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andree and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration   |  Alec Wilkinson. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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