Andree at the North Pole
| Title | Andree at the North Pole |
| Year for Search | 1899 |
| Authors | [Lewis], [Julius Warren](1833-1920) |
| Tertiary Authors | Lewis, Leon [pseud.] |
| Date Published | 1899 |
| Publisher | G.W. Dillingham |
| Place Published | New York |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | The novel is based on Salomon August Andrée (1854-1897) [the accent is not used in the novel], the leader of an actual attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon in 1897. The balloonists disappeared, which is how the novel ends, and the remains were only discovered in 1930. In the novel, which is mostly adventure and intrigue, the balloonists reach Polaria, a technologically advanced eutopia located in a huge (500,000 square miles) basin that exists at the North Pole and disappear on their return flight. |
| Additional Publishers | Most originally published in 1898 in the New York Evening World. |
| Pseudonym | Leon Lewis [pseud.] |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | (1833-1920) |
| Full Text | 1898 [Lewis, Julius Warren] (1833-1920). Andree at the North Pole. By Leon Lewis [pseud.]. New York: G.W. Dillingham, 1899. Most originally published in 1898 in the New York Evening World. PSt The novel is based on Salomon August Andrée (1854-1897) [the accent is not used in the novel], the leader of an actual attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon in 1897. The balloonists disappeared, which is how the novel ends, and the remains were only discovered in 1930. In the novel, which is mostly adventure and intrigue, the balloonists reach Polaria, a technologically advanced eutopia located in a huge (500,000 square miles) basin that exists at the North Pole and disappear on their return flight. |
