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Sky sailors : true stories of the balloon era / David L. Bristow.

by Bristow, David (David L.)

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New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, c2010.

Balloonists -- History -- Juvenile literature.

Balloonists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

9780374370145 :

134 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

The black moon: the first balloon flights (France, 1783) -- Queen of the night sky: Sophie and Jean-Piere Blanchard (France, 1784-1819) -- Splashdown in Lake Erie: John Steiner (United States, 1857) -- The children are gone!: Martha and David Harvey (United States, 1858) -- The long voyage: the flight of the balloon Atlantic (United States, 1859) -- To the top of the sky: Coxwell and Glaisher's record altitude (United Kingdom, 1862) -- The siege of Paris: the balloon-and-pigeon post (France, 1870-1871) -- The North Pole balloon: Salomon Andrees's expedition (Sweden and the Arctic Ocean, 1897) -- Parachute girl: Dolly Shepherd (United Kingdom, 1903-12).

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 water, sailed over enemy armies, and soared to deadly altitudes. Illustrated in full color with dramatic period artwork, here are the stories of the pioneers of human flight, such as daredevil Sophie Blanchard from Napoleon's France, and Solmon Andree, who lead an aerial assault on the North Pole in 1897. --from publisher description

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