Article in New Yorker on S.A. Andree, Swedish balloonist

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

Yes. The Swedish writer Per Olof Sundman wrote a decent docu-novel (1967)
about his attempt, which seems to be translated into English as "Flight
of the Eagle: a Spellbinding Documentary Novel Based on the Great Arctic
Adventure of S. A. Andree, Who Tried to Sail to the North Pole in a Balloon"
http://www.amazon.com/Flight-Eagle-Spellbinding-Documentary-Adventure/dp/B001LNC3I2


Heikki

On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, rich wrote:

> very interesting. full text is not online, alas
>
> ABSTRACT: ANNALS OF EXPLORATION about S. A. Andrée?s ill-fated attempt to
> fly over the North Pole with two companions in a hydrogen balloon in 1897
>
> Unlike other men who went looking for the Pole, Andrée was an engineer, not
> an explorer. His ambition was to prove that balloons could sail to places
> that couldn?t otherwise be reached.
>
> Read more:
> http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/04/19/100419fa_fact_wilkinson#ixzz0kzBBpRVS
>