Andrée's story
Subtitle: the complete record of his polar flight, 1897, from the diaries and journals of S. A. Andrée, Nils Strindberg, and K. Frænkel
By: 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
Contributors: Andrée, Salomon August, 1854-1897; Strindberg, Nils, 1872-1897
Series: Viking explorer books, X9
Publisher: The Viking Press
Published: 1930
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Andrée, Salomon August, -- 1854-1897; Balloon ascensions; Arctic regions
Notes: "Supplement" (4 l. following p. 160) not included in the pagination
Table of contents: title: 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.; title: 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.; title: Supplement: The photographs of the Andrée expedition.; title: Thirty-three years later: The Bratvaag expedition discovers the camp, by G. Horn. The Isbjön expedition to White island, by K. Stubbendorff. The camp on White island and its equipment, by N. Lithberg. The journey home.; title: The verdict of science: The balloon and its construction, by G. V. E. Svedenborg. 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.; title: The documents: Andrée's first diary. Andrée's second diary. Marginal notes on the calendar page of Strindberg's almanac. Strindberg's memorandum almanac (notes on the flight). Strindberg's logbooks. Strindberg's shorthand letters to his fiancée