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On this grand and astonishing bill, Alec Wilkinson brings us the story of S. A. Andrée, the visionary Swedish aeronaut who, in 1897, through the great time of Arctic endeavor, left to find the North Pole by soaring to it in a hydrogen balloon. Called by way of a British military official "the most original and impressive attempt ever made in Arctic exploration," Andrée's expedition was accompanied by nearly the entire world, and it made him a global legend. The Glaciers Balloon starts in the past due 19th hundred years, when nations vied for the best discoveries and papers covered every journey. Wilkinson identifies how in Andrée several modern topics intersected: He was the first modern explorer - the first ever to depart for the Arctic unencumbered by notions of the Intimate age and the first ever to be prepared with the latest technologies - but no explorer had ever left with an increase of uncertainty regarding his destiny, since none had ever flown over the horizon and in to the forbidding region of glaciers. Woven throughout is Andrée's own record and how he emerged by his fearless and singular idea. We also get to know Andrée's family, the girl who cherished him, and both men who followed him - Nils Strindberg, a cousin of the famous playwright, with a soft love affair of his own, and Knut Fraenkel, a happy and hearty young man. Andrée's flight and the journey - predicated on the expedition's diaries and images, which were drastically retrieved thirty-three years after the balloon emerged down - along with Wilkinson's research, give a book filled up with suspense and adventure, a haunting account of high ambition and courage made tangible with the fine detail, beauty, and damaging conditions of going and dwelling in "the realm of Loss of life", as you Arctic explorer input it. Alec Wilkinson began writing for the New Yorker in 1980. Recently he was a policeman in Massachusetts and before that a rock-and-roll musician. He has publicized nine other books and articles. His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lyndhurst Prize, and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award.
