Wilkinson, Alec
The Ice Balloon: S.A. Andrée and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration (2011)
FIRST LINE: “In August of 1930, a Norwegian sloop, the Bratvaag, sailing in the Arctic Ocean, stopped at a remote island called White Island.”
LAST LINE: “…a tall, slender young man…lost in thinking about the currents of the air and having no idea how he will die.”
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