Andrée and his Balloon
by Henri Lachambre
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About this eBook
- Author
- Machuron, Alexis
- Title
- Andrée and His Balloon
- Credits
- Produced by Peter Becker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- G: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation
- Subject
- Andrée, Salomon August, 1854-1897
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 63603
- Release Date
- November 2, 2020
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.ANDRÉE AND HIS BALLOON
- 2.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 3.Introduction
- 4.The Engineer Andrée BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
- 5.The Aerial Vessel Description of the Balloon for Andrée’s Polar Expedition, and the Appliances Constructed at the Aerostatic Workshops of Vaugirard.
- 6.FIRST PART TWO MONTHS AT SPITZBERGEN
- 7.I The Departure
- 8.II Out at Sea
- 9.III The Installation
- 10.IV The Victoria —Bear Hunting
- 11.V The Midnight Sun
- 12.VI National Fête
- 13.VII The Inflation
- 14.VIII The Erline Jarl
- 15.IX The Snow
- 16.X A Long Wait
- 17.XI The Fram
- 18.XII The Storm
- 19.XIII My last Night on the Virgo
- 20.XIV The Return
- 21.SECOND PART
- 22.I Departure of the Second Expedition
- 23.II Arrival at Spitzbergen
- 24.III Preparations at Dane’s Island
- 25.IV The Landing and Preparation of the Balloon—The Inflation
- 26.V Amusements at Spitzbergen—Testing the Gas-Tightness of the Balloon—Arrival of the Vessels Express and Lofoten
- 27.VI The Last Preparations—Anticipations
- 28.VII Before the Departure—Waiting for the South Wind
- 29.VIII The Departure
- 30.The Last Message from Andrée
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