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Illustrations
4.1 S. A. Andrée
14.1 The International Polar Stations, 1882–1883
16.1 Adolphus Greely
16.2 Jens Edward, James Lockwood, and David Brainard leaving Fort Conger
23.1 Lachambre balloon factory in Paris
29.1 Fridtjof Nansen
31.1 Nansen and Hjalmer Johannessen leaving the Fram, March 14, 1895
34.1 The balloon house on Dane’s Island
34.2 Nils Eckholm, S. A. Andrée, and Nils Strindberg beside the balloon basket, 1896
38.1 Arctic routes taken by Andrée and Nansen
39.1 Gustav Svedenborg, Nils Strindberg, Knut Fraenkel, and S. A. Andrée (seated)
42.1 The Eagle headed across the harbor at Dane’s Island
60.1 Having landed
60.2 Andrée in a camp on the ice
61.1 Andrée, Strindberg, and Fraenkel forcing the boat through the ice
64.1 An ivory gull
64.2 Fraenkel and Andrée maneuvering the boat through a lead
68.1 Andrée standing over a bear he had killed
A Note About the Author
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 other books—two memoirs, two collections of essays, three biographical portraits, and two pieces of reporting—most of them first in The New Yorker. His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lyndhurst Prize, and a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He lives with his wife and son in New York City.