

An edition of Falling Upwards (2013)
How We Took to the Air
By Richard Holmes
Publish Date
May 31, 2013
Publisher
William Collins
Language
eng
Pages
410
Description:
Falling Upwards tells 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.
subjects: Ballooning, History, Balloonists, Ballongsegling