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Record #210271:

"The balloonatic", technological innovation or inflated showbusiness?: Commander Cheyne and the spectacle of polar flight / Huw Lewis-Jones.

Title: "The balloonatic", technological innovation or inflated showbusiness?: Commander Cheyne and the spectacle of polar flight / Huw Lewis-Jones.
Author(s): Lewis-Jones, Huw.
Date: 2013.
Publisher: Philadelphia, PA: American Philosophical Society
In: North by degree : new perspectives on Arctic exploration. (2013.),
Abstract: Presents account of struggle of Commander John Cheyne (1826-92) for credibility as explorer, focusing on his innovative plan to reach North Pole by balloon in 1870s.
Notes:

In: North by degree : new perspectives on Arctic exploration / Susan A. Kaplan, Robert McCracken Peck, eds.

Keywords: 629.733 -- Balloons and airships.
656.7(091) -- History of aviation.
92 -- Biographies: Cheyne, John Powles.
91(091) -- Exploration, history.
93"18" -- Nineteenth century.
W -- Expeditions and exploration.
(*3) -- Arctic regions.
(*7) -- Antarctic regions.
SPRI record no.: 210271

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