Andree and His Balloon is a captivating chronicle of human ambition scientific endeavor and tragic heroism centered on the ill-fated 1897 Arctic expedition led by Swedish engineer Salomon August Andree Henri Lachambre a French balloon manufacturer and aeronaut played a key role in the story by constructing the hydrogen balloon Ornen The Eagle that carried Andree and his companions into the Arctic skies The book provides both technical insight and...