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Falling upwards : how we took to the air
- Title
- Falling upwards : how we took to the air / Richard Holmes.
- Author
- Holmes, Richard, 1945-
- Publication
- New York : Pantheon Books, c2013.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | JSE 16-278 | Offsite | |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 15-2718 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xii, 404 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps; 25 cm
- Summary
- 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
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Voices overhead -- The falling dream -- Fiery prospects -- Airy kingdoms -- Angel's eye -- Wild west wind -- Spies in the sky -- Gigantic voyages -- Vertical explorations -- Mariners of the upper atmosphere -- Paris airborne -- Extreme balloons -- Epilogue -- Classic balloon accounts.
- Call Number
- JSE 16-278
- ISBN
- 9780307379665
- 0307379663
- LCCN
- 2013011128
- OCLC
- 827258453
- Author
- Holmes, Richard, 1945-
- Title
- Falling upwards : how we took to the air / Richard Holmes.
- Imprint
- New York : Pantheon Books, c2013.
- Edition
- 1st United States ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JSE 16-278JFE 15-2718