The conquest of the air; the romance of aerial navigation (1902)
Alexander, John · New York, A. Wessels company · leaf 53
ree persons, hada comfortable sleeping apartment, the roof of whichserved as a deck. Danskoe, in Spitzbergen, was theplace selected to start from. The balloon was in-flated there on July 23rd, 1896, but two monthspassed, the winter came, and the adventurers hadwaited in vain for a favourable wind.… … THE EAGLE, IN WHICH ANDREE SET OUT FOR THE NORTH POLE. It was a strange, bold scheme, and by no meansso mad as some people thought. But nearly fiveyears have passed and the voyagers have never LIVING BRITISH BALLOONISTS. 51 returned, though countless reports about them, neverquite authenticated,…
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