ADVENTURE ABOVE THE CLOUDS
Written by F.V. Monk, H.T. Winter
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.
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- TRANSPORT
- AVIATION
- HOT AIR BALLOONS
ADVENTURE ABOVE THE CLOUDS
Written by F.V. Monk, H.T. Winter.
Stock no. 1608412
Hardback.
Almost very good condition.
A summary of mankind's aerial achievements. With Eight Half-tone Plates and Diagrams. Blue cloth boards, black titles. 224 pages. Spine is bumped and faded, with small split / hole at side. Names in ink to front endpapers. Foxing to textblock.
Front cover
Contents
- I. A Stirring Adventure
- II. The First Adventurers
- III. The First Aeronaut is Killed
- IV. The Never-Ending Quest
- V. Other Explorers Follow On
- VI. A Big Step into the Unknown
- VII. The Record Ascent of Coxwell and Glaisher
- VIII. Increasing Knowledge
- IX. Glaisher Finds a New Stream
- X. The Happy Adventurer
- XI. "For Ever Farther - For Ever Higher"
- XII. Death Above the Clouds
- XIII. In the Stratosphere
- XIV. The Aeroplane Reaches the Stratosphere
- XV. How the Temple of Knowledge has Grown
- XVI. Towards the Stars