![]() ![]() From the conquest of the skies to the exploration of the Poles, this haunting, award-winning novel, set in the ethereal landscape of the Arctic, reflects on the human need to discover, describe, conquer, and ultimately shrink the world. Based on these lunar-like black-and-white photographs and the expedition logbooks, Hlne Gaudy retraces and reimagines this great adventure that was blown off course, weaving in the painfully beautiful love affair of Nils and Anna. Among the remains, some rolls of negatives are found and one hundred images are retrieved. It is the solution to a mystery that has hung in the air for 33 years: the disappearance in July 1897 of Salomon August Andre, Knut Frnkel, and Nils Strindberg as they tried to reach the North Pole in a hydrogen balloon. As they move across the island, the men discover bodies and the remains of a makeshift camp. The melting ice has revealed terrain that is usually inaccessible. ![]() ![]() A walrus-hunting boat sets sail for White Island, one of the last lands before the North Pole. Book Synopsis Summer 1930, Svalbard, Norway. ![]()
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