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Falling Upwards:How We Took to the Air电子书

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作       者:Richard Holmes

出  版  社:William Collins

出版时间:2013-04-25

字       数:68.6万

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Lose yourself in the clouds with bestselling and prize-winning biographer and science writer Richard Holmes in this glorious history of hot-air ballooning. Hot-air balloons have drifted through Richard Holmes’s work for many years. And now, in this heart-lifting book he tells the story of these ineffably romantic floating machines and the reckless invention of the adventurers who flew them. His subject is flight itself and the pioneer generation of rival aviators. Ballooning offered a new vision of the earth. The world pondered for the first time reliable weather prediction, observation of the stars from an aerial point of view and the exploration of remote continents. Those in previous centuries who dreamt of flight believed it would open up the secrets of heaven. In fact, as Richard Holmes shows, it revealed the secrets of the world beneath.
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Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Voices Overhead

1. The Falling Dream

2. Fiery Prospects

3. Airy Kingdoms

4. Angel’s Eye

5. Wild West Wind

6. Spies in the Sky

7. Gigantic Voyages

8. Vertical Explorations

9. Mariners of the Upper Atmosphere

10. Paris Airborne

11. Extreme Balloons

Epilogue

Classic Balloon Accounts

Illustrations

Picture Section

Footnotes

References

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgements

By the same author

Copyright

About the Publisher

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