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Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air - Community Reviews back

by Richard Holmes
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Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 11 years ago
text Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air
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 11 years ago
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
Bettie's Books rated it 12 years ago
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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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