| Title | Andree's story : the complete record of his polar flight, 1897, from the diaries and journals of S.A. Andrée, Nils Strindberg, and K. Frænkel, found on White Island in the summer of 1930 and edited by the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography / translated from the Swedish by Edward Adams-Ray.
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| Published | New York : The Viking Press, 1930.
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| Description | xvi, 389 pages, 44 unnumbered pages of plates : frontispiece, illustrations, portraits, maps (1 folded), diagrams, facsimiles ; 25 cm
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| Formatted Note | Contents: The background: The three men. Trial flights in the balloon Svea. Planning the polar flight. The first visit to Spitzbergen. The base on Dane Island.--The adventure: The flight of the Eagle, July 11-14, 1897. The march over the ice toward Franz Josef Land. Towards the Seven Islands. Caught in the ice. On White Island.--Supplement: The photographs of the Andrée Expedition.--Thirty-three years later: The Bratvaag Expedition discovers the camp, by G. Horn. The Isbjörn Expedition to White Island, by K. Stubbendorff. The camp on White Island and its equipment, by N. Lithberg. The journey home.--The verdict of science: The balloon and its construction, by G.V.E. Svendenborg. The weather on the flight, by A. Wallén. Technical account of the flight, by K.A.B. Amundson and I. Malmer. Pack-ice, by H.U. Sverdrup. Animal life on the pack-ice, by E. Lönnberg. Remarks on the map of the route taken by the Andrée Expedition, by B. Aurell.--The documents: Andrée's first diary. Andrées second diary. Marginal notes on the calendar page of Strindberg's almanac. Strindberg's memorandum almanac (notes on the flight). Strindberg' logbooks. Strindberg's shorthand letters to his fiancée.
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| Subjects | Andrée, Salomon August, 1854-1897.
Arctic regions.
Balloon ascensions.
Frænkel, Knut, 1870-1897.
North Pole.
Strindberg, Nils, 1872-1897.
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| Other Authors | Andrée, Salomon August, 1854-1897, author.
Strindberg, Nils, 1872-1897, author.
Frænkel, Knut, 1870-1897, author.
Adams-Ray, Edward, translator.
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| Organizations | Svenska sällskapet för antropologi och geografi, editor.
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| LC Card Number | 30-33944 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: G 700 1897 A558 1930
CA-1903479: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
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