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Record #151205:

Andrée's folly: time for reappraisal? / Urban Wråkberg.

Title: Andrée's folly: time for reappraisal? / Urban Wråkberg.
Author(s): Wråkberg, Urban.
Date: 1999.
Publisher: Stockholm: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
In: Centennial of S.A. Andrée's North Pole expedition : proceedings of a Conference on S.A. Andrée and the Agenda for Social Science Research of the Polar Regions. (1999.),
Abstract: Suggests that Andrée's plan to reach North Pole by balloon was motivated not by naivety and misplaced self-confidence, but represented a practical response to logistical problems experienced by polar exploration at that date.
Notes:

In: The centennial of S.A. Andrée's North Pole expedition : proceedings of a Conference on S.A. Andrée and the Agenda for Social Science Research of the Polar Regions / Urban Wråkberg, ed.

Keywords: 92 -- Biographies: Andrée, Salomon August.
656 -- Transport services.
629.733 -- Balloons and airships.
91(08) -- Expeditions: 1897 Andrée.
W -- Expeditions and exploration.
(*3) -- Arctic regions.
SPRI record no.: 151205

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