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S'està carregant… Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air First American Editi edition by Holmes, Richard (2013) Hardcover (edició 2013)de Richard Holmes (Autor)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Watching the recent movie Aeronauts reminded me that this volume had been sitting on the shelf for a few years. It turned out to be an excellent review of the first 150 years of manned flight in balloons, and highlighted the source of the many highly-fictionalized events from the movie. But it’s far more than a simple history of pioneering balloon flights; it’s more a consideration on what those early flights opened up in terms of science, art, and even the way that humans started to perceive the planet from a sociological and political perspective. An interesting history prose book written by a poet. Which sometimes doesn't work in favor the book as a whole, but in other places makes what could be uninteresting facts into something more interesting. The overall book does help capture some of the feeling and spirit of the early ballooning days, or (since I wasn't there) makes one believe that it captures that spirit. Ultimately I would not recommend this if you aren't interested in early aviation, as it is not that phenomenal. But it is pretty good and with just a little interest, it's worth the read. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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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.-- No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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This book provides everything you ever wanted to know about balloons, and more! It documents adventures, misadventures, explorations, and inspirations. It is told in an entertaining way. I tend to enjoy quirky books that contain a mixture of science and history. I found it delightful.
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