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. Andr e 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 Publishing Group
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.5"