KING OF ALL BALLOONS
Written by Mark Davies
Published by Amberley Publishing
in 2015
ISBN: 9781445653082
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KING OF ALL BALLOONS
Written by Mark Davies.
Stock no. 1327934
1st.
2015.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
The complex life of explorer James Sadler, the ups and downs of his amazing career. Black boards, gilt title to spine. 320 pages including index. Colour and b/w photos. ISBN: 9781445653082. SIGNED by the author to title-page. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Includes an errata slip. Dustwrapper is just a little edge rubbed/creased.
Front cover
Contents
- Preface
- Foreword by Richard Branson
- Chronology
- UK Maps
- Sadler Family Tree
- Part 1: LAND, 1753-84
- 1. Growing Upwards: Childhood and Background
- 2. 'Soaring Curiosity': James Sadler's First Trial of February 1784
- Part 2: AIR, 1784-85
- 3. James Sadler: The First English, or British, Aeronaut?
- 4. Sadler's First Public Ascent: Oxford, Friday 12 November 1784
- 5. Calais or Burst! The Race to Cross the English Channel
- 6. 'To Sweep the Cobwebs from the Sky': Sadler's Six 1795 Ascents
- 7. A Literary Interlude: Soaring Prose and Uplifting Airs
- Part 3: LAND, 1786-95
- 8. Grounded!
- Part 4: WATER, 1795-1809
- 9. Navy Larks and Sparks
- Part 5: AIR, 1810-24
- 10. Things Looking Up Again! 1810-12
- 11. Like Father Like Son: Windham Sadler, Heir to the Air
- 12. The 'Inheritor of His Father's Genius and Intrepidity': Windham Sadler's Ascents from 1814-1823
- 13. Expectation Stood on Tip-Toe': William Windham Sadler, 1823-24
- Part 6: LAND 1824-28
- 14. 'How Scheming Beggars a Man': James Sadler's Final Short Descent of All Men