# The Ice Balloon

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- Book: [The Ice Balloon](https://www.bookquiver.com/alec-wilkinson/the-ice-balloon) ([The Ice Balloon.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/alec-wilkinson/the-ice-balloon.md))
- Authors: [Alec Wilkinson](https://www.bookquiver.com/alec-wilkinson)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-03-0774-186-8
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2013-01-08
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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...