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

[rich]

its noted in the piece, Heikki and the writer adds that a recent scholar
believes the novelist's depiction of Andree's character could not be more
wrong.

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Heikki Raudaskoski
<hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi>wrote:

>
>
> 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
> >
>
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