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    The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andree and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration Alec Wilkinson New Yorker staff writer Alec Wilkinson tells the astonishing tale of the disastrous 1897 Swedish expedition to the North Pole by air, and of the last generation of romantic explorers who would make the pole their life’s work.

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

    Alec Wilkinson

    New Yorker staff writer Alec Wilkinson tells the astonishing tale of the disastrous 1897 Swedish expedition to the North Pole by air, and of the last generation of romantic explorers who would make the pole their life’s work.

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