Sky sailors : true stories of the balloon era /
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 stori...
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New York :
Farrar Straus Giroux,
c2010.
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Table of Contents:
- The black moon: the first balloon flights (France, 1783)
- Queen of the night sky: Sophie and Jean-Piere Blanchard (France, 1784-1819)
- Splashdown in Lake Erie: John Steiner (United States, 1857)
- The children are gone!: Martha and David Harvey (United States, 1858)
- 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, 1870-1871)
- The North Pole balloon: Salomon Andrees's expedition (Sweden and the Arctic Ocean, 1897)
- Parachute girl: Dolly Shepherd (United Kingdom, 1903-12).