The sky sailors true stories of the balloon era
An illustrated history of balloonists who flew into storms and over large bodies of water in hot air balloons from 1783 to the 1900s.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar Straus Giroux,
2010.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The black moon (The first balloon flight, France, 1783)
- Queen of the night sky (Sophie and Jean-Pierre Blanchard, France, 1784-1819)
- Splashdown in Lake Erie (John Steiner, United States, 1857)
- The chlldren are gone! (Martha and David Harvey, United States, 1859)
- The long voyage (The flight of the Balloon Atlantic, United States, 1859)
- To the top of the sky (Coxwell and Glaisher's record altitude, United Kingdom, 1862)
- The siege of Paris (The balloon-and pigeon post, France, 1870-71)
- The North Pole balloon (Salomon AndreĢe's expedition, Sweden and the Arctic Ocean, 1897)
- Parachute girl (Dolly Shepherd, United Kingdom, 1903-04)
- Notes
- Bibliography.
