Relates the incredible adventures of Professor William Waterman Sherman who in 1883 sets off in a balloon across the Pacific, survives the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa, and is eventually picked up in the Atlantic.
Jackson, Donald Dale and Editors of Time-Life Books
1981
Contains chapters entitled: "Show Us the Way to the Skies"; Heyday of the High-Flying Showmen; An Unlikely Recruit for War; Lifting Science Toward the Edge of Space; The Challenge and Joy of a Precarious Sport.