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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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Sky sailors: true stories of the balloon era
2010, Farrar Straus Giroux
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July 30, 2019 | Edited by MARC Bot | associate edition with work OL15973789W |
April 28, 2011 | Edited by OCLC Bot | Added OCLC numbers. |
October 18, 2009 | Created by ImportBot | Imported from Library of Congress MARC record. |