A voyage in the clouds : the (mostly) true story of the first international flight by balloon in 1785
Title:
A voyage in the clouds : the (mostly) true story of the first international flight by balloon in 1785
Author:
Olshan, Matthew.
Blackall, Sophie.
ISBN:
9780374329549
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Margaret Ferguson Books/Farrar Straus Giroux, 2016.
Physical Description:
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm
Abstract:
Dr. John Jeffries and his pilot, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, each want to be the first man to fly from one country to another, across the English Channel. There's only one problem: they can't stand each other! Inspired by the true story of the first international flight.
Subject:
| Ballooning -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Hot air balloons -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Jeffries, John, 1745-1819 -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809 -- Juvenile fiction. |
Summary:
Dr. John Jeffries and his pilot, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, each want to be the first man to fly from one country to another, across the English Channel. There's only one problem: they can't stand each other! Inspired by the true story of the first international flight.