The Flight of the Eagle
New York: Pantheon Books, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket.
Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Very good. Jacket lightly rubbed & toned. 8vo; 8.5 inches tall; 383 pp. Maps on endpapers. First American edition.
Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Item #011938
An account of S.A. Andree's ill-fated 1897 attempt to travel to the North Pole in a hydrogen balloon (called the Eagle). The deaths of Andree and his two companions went unexplained for nearly 50 years. Sundman also uses this story as an opportunity to examine society's thirst for adventurous heroes, and the dangerous feats people attempt in pursuit of that status.
Price: $19.95