Title: At the mercy of the winds
Description: AT THE MERCY OF THE WINDS tells the extraordinary stories of both journeys. Featuring up-to-the-minute drama from David's own expediton and original photographs and documents from the Swedish voyage, it is the ultimate adventure book as, alone in the skies above a frozen and harshly beautiful landscape, David battled against the elements to fulfil the drama of three Swedith explorers a century earlier, and become the first man to balloon to the North Pole.
Subjects: Aerial exploration, Balloon ascensions, Biography, Description and travel, Explorers, Journeys, Ballooning, Strinberg, Nils, 1872-1897 -- Journeys -- North Pole
Places: Arctic regions, Great Britain, North Pole, Sweden
People: David Hempleman-Adams (1956-), Knut Hjalmar Ferdinand Frænkel (1870-1897), Nils Strindberg (1872-1897), Salomon August Andrée (1854-1897)