Saturday, April 24, 2010

Arctic-Hot-Air-Balloon

I just scanned these from a book I was cataloguing at work, The Andree Diaries. It's a record kept of a late 19th Century Expedition to the North Pole in a Hot Air Balloon. The Diaries and records were found on White Island in 1930.















2 comments:

  1. the new yorker had an article about this recently, there's only an abstract online but i can send you a photocopy of you're interested beyond the what you've already got.
    http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/04/19/100419fa_fact_wilkinson

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  2. That's a funny coincidence. If you still have it I'de love a copy. xx

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