Andrée at the North Pole, with Details of his Fate. Leon Lewis. New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., Publ
Andrée at the North Pole, with Details of his Fate. Leon Lewis. New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., Publishers, 1899. First edition, probable first binding. The more elaborate binding with illustration on front cover with Andrée’s face on a balloon and a polar bear on an ice flow. Andrée’s expedition departs by balloon from Dane’s Island in 1897 and, after a series of aerial adventures, the explorers arrive in the Kingdom of Polaris, an unknown land near the North Pole inhabited by a white race which is scientifically ahead of the outside world. -- source link
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