The Flight of the Eagle

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383 pp. 8vo. Maps on endpapers. An account of S.A. Andree's ill-fated 1897 attempt to travel to the North Pole in a hydrogen balloon (called the Eagle). The deaths of Andree and hi s two companions went unexplained for nearly 50 years. Sundman also uses this story as an opportunity to examine society's thirst for adventurous heroes, and the dangerous feats people attempt in pursuit of that status. Show more