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

By Alec Wilkinson

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307594807
• ISBN13: 9780307594808
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Knopf
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.7" x 1.0" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

"Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration

Really wish the author would have focused more on S. A. Andrée and not so much on other arctic explorations. I honestly felt that i learned more from the Wikipedia article about Andrée then i did this book.