balloon ascensions

Describes how, in 1986, Richard Branson and Per Lindstrand became the first persons ever to cross the Atlantic Ocean by hot air balloon.

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

A boy and girl accompany their uncle on a hot-air balloon trip that lifts off from a meadow, crosses a great city, and comes to a safe landing just ahead of a summer storm.

Traces the history of hot-air ballooning and describes the equipment, training, and techniques of the successful aeronaut.

In this story based on true events, a thirteen-year-old apprentice takes the first manned hot air balloon flight in America and gains new insight into life's possibilities.

The adventures of Harriet Shaw and her niece and nephew, Rebecca and William, as they set out on a round-the-world balloon race.

Megan goes for a ride in a hot-air balloon and learns all the details of how one is operated.

Ariel almost causes her famous mother to lose a balloon race and then helps her win it.

Benny wants adventure and finds it as he and the other Alden children help uncover the plan of those who would prevent ballooning from coming to Lloyd's Landing.

Ariel almost causes her famous mother to lose a balloon race and then helps her win it.