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Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air - Richard Holmes, To Be Announced
Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air
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Format: audiobook
ISBN: 9781482930313 (1482930315)
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure, Non Fiction, Travel, Biography, History, Science, Technology
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Bettie's Books
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3.0 Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air
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bookshelves: spring-2013, radio-4, published-2013, nonfiction, history, adventure, sciences Read from May 18 to 27, 2013 BOTWBBC Blurb: In this heart-lifting book, the Romantic biographer Richard Holmes floats across the world following the pioneer generation of balloon aeronauts, from the first...
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Reflections
Reflections rated it
3.5 Colorful characters, the art and science of ballooning, a history of ideas, and the excitement of discovery
text Colorful characters, the art and science of ballooning, a history of ideas, and the excitement of discovery
I lost myself reading The Age of Wonder, the previous book by Richard Holmes, becoming completely caught up in its enticing panorama of the Romantic Age of Europe, when there were still far flung parts of the globe to explore, most of the chemical elements awaited discovery, and poets and scientists...
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Bettie's Books
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BOTWBBC Blurb: In this heart-lifting book, the Romantic biographer Richard Holmes floats across the world following the pioneer generation of balloon aeronauts, from the first heroic experiments of the 1780s to the tragic attempt to fly a balloon to the North Pole in the 1890s.In a compelling advent...
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Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air - Richard Holmes, To Be Announced
Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air - Richard Holmes
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The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science - Richard Holmes
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Shelley: The Pursuit - Richard Holmes
Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark & Memoirs of the Author (2 in 1) - Richard Holmes, William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft
Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer - Richard Holmes
Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834 - Richard Holmes
Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front - Richard Holmes
World War II: The Definitive Visual History: From Blitzkrieg to the Atom Bomb - R.G. Grant, Michael Kerrigan, Charles Messenger, Ann Kramer, Jonathan Bastable, Sally Regan, Robin Cross, Richard Holmes
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