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Riding the Jetstream :The Story of Ballooning: From Montgolfier to Breitling
Riding the Jetstream The Story of Ballooning From Montgolfier to Breitling
Author: John Christopher
Ballooning can be both all-absorbing relaxation and high-tech sport. This text tells its amazing story from the Montgolfier brothers to today's riders of the jetstream - the narrow band of fast winds high in the Earth's atmosphere. Fascinating historical byways are glimpsed, from Napoleonic visions of airborne armies to the exploits of Edwardian...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780719560514
ISBN-10: 0719560519
Pages: 256
Edition: illustrated edition
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Publisher: John Murray Publishers, Ltd.
Book Type: Hardcover
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