Sky sailors

true stories of the balloon era

Provides an illustrated history of balloonists who flew into storms and over large bodies of water in hot air balloons from 1783 to the 1900s, and describes how aeronauts were used for military means, such as the aerial assault on the North Pole in 1897 led by Salomon Andree.

Farrar Straus Giroux
2010
9780374370145
book
Lexile: 
850

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