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

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by Alec Wilkinson| 2013| 256 pages| 3.7267| other

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

In this grand and astonishing tale, Alec Wilkinson brings us the story of S. A. Andrée, the visionary Swedish aeronaut who, in 1897, during the great age of Arctic endeavor, left to discover the North Pole by flying to it in a hydrogen balloon. Called by a British military officer “the most original and remarkable attempt ever made in Arctic exploration,” Andrée’s expedition was followed by nearly the entire world, and it made him an international legend. The Ice Balloon begins in the late nineteenth century, when nations, compelled by vanity, commerce, and science, competed with one another for the greatest discoveries, and newspapers covered every journey. Wilkinson describes how in Andrée several contemporary themes intersected. He was the first modern explorer—the first to depart for the Arctic unencumbered by notions of the Romantic age, and the first to be equipped with the newest technologies. No...

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Author:Alec Wilkinson
Publication Year:2013
ISBN:307741869
Pages:256
Language:other
File Size:3.7267
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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