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Holmes, Richard, 1945-
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Ballooning -- History.
Hot air balloons -- History.
Balloonists -- Biography.
Aeronautics -- History.
Flight -- History.
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Holmes, Richard, 1945-
Ballooning -- History.
Hot air balloons -- History.
Balloonists -- Biography.
Aeronautics -- History.
Flight -- History.
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Falling upwards : how we took to the air / Richard Holmes.
by
Holmes, Richard, 1945-
William Collins, 2013.
Call #:
629.13322 H752f
Subjects
Ballooning
--
History.
Hot air balloons
--
History.
Balloonists
--
Biography
.
Aeronautics
--
History.
Flight
--
History.
ISBN:
0007386923
9780007386925 (hc.)
Description:
xii, 404 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
The story of the enigmatic group of men and women who first risked their lives to take to the air, and so discovered a new dimension of human experience. Why they did it, what their contemporaries thought of them, and how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet in wholly unexpected ways is its subject.
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