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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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