03257cam a2200373 4500 591306700 TxAuBib 20220525120000.0 ||||||s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781483062624 1483062627 463323ca-0e3c-4e1a-a4fc-780992cdd15c OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1396307 OverDrive (Product ID) 9781982514341 9781982514341 TxAuBib Holmes, Richard. Falling Upwards [Libby Audiobook] : How We Took to the Air. Blackstone Publishing, 2013. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 373MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 373MB. HTML:<p>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.</p> <p>Dramatic sequences move from the early Anglo-French balloon rivalries, the crazy firework flights of beautiful Sophie Blanchard, the revelatory ascents over the great Victorian cities and sprawling industrial towns of Northern Europe, the astonishing long-distance voyages of the American entrepreneur John Wise, and the French photographer Félix Nadar to the terrifying high-altitude flights of James Glaisher, FRS, who rose above seven miles without oxygen, helping to establish the new science of meteorology as well as the environmental notion—so important to us today—of a "fragile" planet. Balloons were also used to observe the horrors of modern battle during the American Civil War, including a memorable flight by General Custer.</p> <p>Readers will discover the many writers and dreamers—from Mary Shelley to Edgar Allan Poe, from Charles Dickens to Jules Verne—who felt the imaginative impact of flight and allowed it to soar in their work. Moreover, through the strange allure of the great balloonists, Holmes offers another of his subtle portraits of human endeavor, recklessness, and vision.</p>. Nonfiction. History. Travel. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-24 20:00:02. Jackson, Gildart. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/0887-1/1396307-FallingUpwards.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/1396307-FallingUpwards.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=463323CA-0E3C-4E1A-A4FC-780992CDD15C&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/0887-1/1396307-FallingUpwards.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/1396307-FallingUpwards.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=463323CA-0E3C-4E1A-A4FC-780992CDD15C&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)