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A voyage in the clouds

the (mostly) true story of the first international flight by balloon in 1785
A picture book inspired by the true story of how the first international flight was an Englishman and a Frenchman who rode in a balloon across the English Channel.

The first air voyage in the United States

the story of Jean-Pierre Blanchard
1996
Recounts the voyage of an eighteenth-century French aeronaut by hot air balloon from Philadelphia to Woodbury, New Jersey, in 1793.
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