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The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andree and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration

By four it was steady from the southwest, and sometimes squalling. The clouds moved constantly north. Two Norwegian sealers arrived looking for safe harbor from a storm, which they expected to last a few days. Around eight, having rowed ashore with Strindberg, Fraenkel, Svedenborg, the alternate,...