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An edition of The sky sailors: true stories of the balloon era (2010)

The sky sailors

true stories of the balloon era

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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 dramatic period artwork, this volume features nine exhilarating stories about the pioneers of human flight, such as daredevil Sophie Blanchard from Napoleon's France, and Salomon Andree, who led an ill-fated balloon assault on the North Pole in 1897. - Publisher.

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Farrar Straus Giroux
Language
English

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Subjects
Juvenile literature, Balloonists, Biography, History

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Sky Sailors: True Stories of the Balloon Era
2014, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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The sky sailors: true stories of the balloon era
2010, Farrar Straus Giroux
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Table of Contents

Introduction
The black moon : the first balloon flights (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 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 Andree's expedition (Sweden and the Arctic Ocean, 1897)
Parachute girl : Dolly Shepherd (United Kingdom, 1903-12)

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New York
Genre
Juvenile literature, Biography

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
910.4
Library of Congress
TL616 .B75 2010

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
134 p.
Dimensions
24 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23725273M
ISBN 10
0374370141
ISBN 13
9780374370145
LCCN
2009037285
OCLC/WorldCat
437186717

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