
The Balloonist
MacDonald Harris(Author)
Galileo Publishers
3rd Edition
Published on 19. September 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-915530-58-5 (ISBN)
Description
In 1976 Farrar Strauss published the 5th novel by an American writer who had been gathering momentum on both sides of the Atlantic. It was both an intense love story and a Jules Verne-type science fiction adventure, centered on an attempt by a Swedish scientist, an American journalist and a French speaking adventurer to become the first people to set foot on the North Pole. To arrive there and return, borne on the wind by a huge red and white hydrogen balloon.
The book was a critical sensation, and was runner-up for the National Book Awards in 1977.
What was not known at the time of first publication, nor indeed when Galileo reissued this extraordinary book in 2011, was that the author had actually based this fiction on a real event: the 1897 attempt by S. A Andrée to fly to the North Pole.
This is a new edition, the first in a uniform presentation of selected Harris works.
The book was a critical sensation, and was runner-up for the National Book Awards in 1977.
What was not known at the time of first publication, nor indeed when Galileo reissued this extraordinary book in 2011, was that the author had actually based this fiction on a real event: the 1897 attempt by S. A Andrée to fly to the North Pole.
This is a new edition, the first in a uniform presentation of selected Harris works.
More details
Edition
3rd ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
330 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-915530-58-5 (9781915530585)
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Persons
MacDonald Harris was the pseudonym of Donald Heiney. He wrote 16 novels and 1 book on sailing (he was in the US Navy during WW2) and lived for most of his life in Newport, California. In 1982 he received a literature award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for his entire body of work. He died in 1993 aged 71.