Collecting the Andrée expedition

The article investigates the circulation of objects from the Salomon A. Andrée expedition (1897), examining the reproduction and recontextualization of written records in four Swedish works: Med Örnen mot polen (1930), Per Olof Sundman’s documentary novel Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd (1967), and his compilation Ingen fruktan, inget hopp (1968), and Bea Uusma’s Expeditionen (2013). The article approaches these writings through the prism of collecting, exhibiting, and curating, as part of the extended archive of the Andrée expedition, and argues for an understanding of books as important in circulating objects to a reading audience in ways that shape the expedition’s afterlife.