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July 3, 2014 | History
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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Juvenile literature, Balloonists, Biography, HistoryShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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Sky Sailors: True Stories of the Balloon Era
2014, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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1466871423 9781466871427
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The sky sailors: true stories of the balloon era
2010, Farrar Straus Giroux
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in English
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0374370141 9780374370145
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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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