Sky sailors
true stories of the balloon era
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
2010 - Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
33,500 words, Guess
Page Count
134 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveskysailorstruest0000bris
- ISBN-100374370141
- ISBN-139780374370145
- Library of Congress Control Number2009037285
- OCLC Control Number437186717
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780374370145
- Open LibraryOL24879071M
Classifications
- DDC910.4
- LCCTL616 .B75 2010
- LCCTL616.B75 2010
Description
This volume traces the evolution of the balloon era, from 1783-1912, and examines the exploits of the men and women who flew in them, parachuted from them, and sometimes died in them. For more than a century before airplanes, people explored the sky in balloons. From 1783 to the early 1900s, aeronauts flew into storms, crossed large bodies of water, sailed over enemy armies, and soared to deadly altitudes. Illustrated in full color with dramatuc period artwork, here are the stories of the pioneers of human flight, such as daredevil Sophie Blanchard from Napoleon's France, and Solmon Andree, who lead an aerial assault on the North Pole in 1897. --from publisher description
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