Balloonist
  • Published:
    Jun-1977
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    256
  • Age Level:
    18 & up
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As in the best of Jules Verne or Albert Sanchez Pinol, The Balloonist is a gripping and surreal yarn, chilling and comic by turn, that brilliantly reinvents the Arctic adventure.

It is July 1897, at the northernmost reach of the inhabited world. A Swedish scientist, an American journalist, and a young, French-speaking adventurer climb into a wicker gondola suspended beneath a huge, red-and-white balloon. The ropes are cut, the balloon rises, and the three begin their voyage: an attempt to become the first people to set foot on the North Pole, and return, borne on the wind. Philip Pullman says in his foreword: "Once I open any of MacDonald Harris’s novels I find it almost impossible not to turn and read on, so delightful is the sensation of a sharp intelligence at work. In The Balloonist , we see all of his qualities at their best."
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    • First Edition
    • Jun-1977
    • Avon
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0380017393
    • ISBN13: 9780380017393
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    • Oct-2011
    • Galileo Music
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 1903385105
    • ISBN13: 9781903385104
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    • Jul-2012
    • Allen & Unwin (AUS)
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1743313462
    • ISBN13: 9781743313466
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    • Nov-2012
    • Overlook Press
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 159020980X
    • ISBN13: 9781590209806
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    • Sep-2024
    • Galileo Publishers
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 191553058X
    • ISBN13: 9781915530585
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    • Jan-1976
    • Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0374108749
    • ISBN13: 9780374108748
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    • Nov-2012
    • Allen & Unwin (AUS)
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1743430620
    • ISBN13: 9781743430620
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    • Nov-2012
    • Galileo Publishers
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1903385180
    • ISBN13: 9781903385180
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    • Nov-2012
    • Overlook Press
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1468303732
    • ISBN13: 9781468303735



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