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Language: en
Pages: 79
Pages: 79
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-06-27 - Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
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Language: en
Pages: 156
Pages: 156
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-05-13 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
For more than a century before airplanes, people explored the sky in balloons. From 1783 to the early 1900s, aeronauts flew into storms, crossed large bodies of
Language: en
Pages: 567
Pages: 567
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-29 - Publisher: Vintage
**Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)** **Time Magazine 10 Top Nonfiction Books of 2013** **The New Republic Best Books of 2013** In this heart-lifting chronic
Language: en
Pages: 40
Pages: 40
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-12-09 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster
The first "manned" hot-air balloon is about to take off! But what are those noises coming from the basket? Based on the (POSSIBLY) true report of a day in 1783,
Language: en
Pages: 257
Pages: 257
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-08 - Publisher: Vintage
In 1897, at the height of the heroic age of Arctic exploration, the visionary Swedish explorer S. A. Andrée made a revolutionary attempt to discover the North