The Ice Balloon

Informationen zum Autor ALEC WILKINSON began writing for The New Yorker in 1980. Before that, he was a policeman in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, and before that he was a rock-and-roll musician. He has published nine books, including The Happiest Man in the World and The Protest Singer . His honours include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lyndhurst Prize and a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. Zusammenfassung The story of the only person to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon! and the golden age of Polar Exploration.

Product details

• Authors: Alec Wilkinson, Wilkinson Alec
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.03.2013
• EAN: 9780007460038
• ISBN: 978-0-00-746003-8
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Fourth Estate
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book; Europe, Biography: general, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, Expeditions, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers, HISTORY / Polar Regions, HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries, TRANSPORTATION / Aviation / History, Expeditions: popular accounts, Geographical discovery & exploration, True stories: discovery / historical / scientific, c 1500 onwards to present day, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, Polar regions, Indo-European languages, True stories of discovery, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Biography: adventurers and explorers