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

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In this grand and astonishing tale, Alec Wilkinson brings us the story of S. A. Andr&#233e, 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 &#8220the most original and remarkable attempt ever made in Arctic exploration,&#8221 Andr&#233e&#8217s expedition was followed by nearly the entire world, and it made him an international legend. &nbsp 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 Andr&#233e several contemporary themes intersected. He was the first modern explorer&#8212the first to depart for the Arctic unencumbered by notions of the Romantic age, and the first to be equipped with the newest technologies. No explorer had ever left with more

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