Download or read book A Voyage in the Clouds written by Matthew Olshan and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious fictionalized retelling of the first international balloon flight.
Download or read book A Voyage in a Balloon Illustrated written by Jules Gabriel Verne and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amalgamating futuristic technologies and expeditions into the future, this is a scintillating collection by Verne. This short work combines sights of the future as well as bird's eye view of the contemporary era. Just as the narrator starts the ascent of his balloon, a stranger jumps into its car. The unexpected passenger's only intent is to take the balloon as high as it will go, even at the cost of his and pilot's life. The intruder takes advantage of the long journey to recount the history of incidents related to the epic of lighter-than-air travel. This short story foreshadows Verne's first novel, Five Weeks in a Balloon.
Download or read book Five Weeks in a Balloon written by Jules Verne and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five Weeks in a Balloon: Illustrated with 78 original illustrations from Riou and Montaut (1867), from the english edition of 1869. Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen (French: Cinq semaines en ballon) is an adventure novel by Jules Verne. It is the first Verne novel in which he perfected the "ingredients" of his later work, skillfully mixing a plot full of adventure and twists that hold the reader's interest with passages of technical, geographic, and historic description. The book gives readers a glimpse of the exploration of Africa, which was still not completely known to Europeans of the time, with explorers traveling all over the continent in search of its secrets. Public interest in fanciful tales of African exploration was at its height, and the book was an instant hit; it made Verne financially independent and got him a contract with Jules Hetzel's publishing house, which put out several dozen more works of his for over forty years afterward.
Download or read book Five Weeks in a Balloon Illustrated written by Jules Verne (Translator: William Lackland) Jules Verne (Translator: William Lackland) and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1863.
Download or read book A Voyage in a Balloon 1852 written by Jules Verne and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Drama in the Air" is an adventure short story by Jules Verne. The story was first published in August 1851 under the title "Science for families. A Voyage in a Balloon" in Musée des familles with five illustrations by Alexandre de Bar.
Download or read book A Voyage in a Balloon Annotated written by Jules Verne and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-12 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Drama in the Air" is an adventure short story by Jules Verne. The story was first published in August 1851 under the title "Science for families. A Voyage in a Balloon" in Musée des familles with five illustrations by Alexandre de Bar.
Download or read book Five Weeks in a Balloon written by Jules Verne and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Twenty One Balloons written by William Pene du Bois and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1986-05-06 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Newbery Medal Winner Professor William Waterman Sherman intends to fly across the Pacific Ocean. But through a twist of fate, he lands on Krakatoa, and discovers a world of unimaginable wealth, eccentric inhabitants, and incredible balloon inventions.Winner of the 1948 Newbery Medal, this classic fantasy-adventure is now available in a handsome new edition. "William Pene du Bois combines his rich imagination, scientific tastes, and brilliant artistry to tell astory that has no age limit."—The Horn Book
Download or read book Five Weeks In A Balloon written by Jules Verne and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2014 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Five Weeks In A Balloon" is an adventure novel that describes the journey of three men, Dr. Samuel Ferguson, Dick Kennedy and their servant Joe in a balloon in Africa. On their journey from East to West they face a lot of dangers, as well from natives as from animals and other things.
Download or read book A Voyage in a Balloon written by Jules Verne and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A voyage in a balloon by Jules Verne."A Drama in the Air" (French: "'Un drame dans les airs'") is an adventure short story by Jules Verne. The story was first published in August 1851 under the title "Science for families. A Voyage in a Balloon" ("La science en famille. Un voyage en ballon") in Musée des familles with five illustrations by Alexandre de Bar.[1] In 1874, with six illustrations by Émile-Antoine Bayard, it was included in Doctor Ox, the only collection of Jules Verne's short stories published during Verne's lifetime. An English translation by Anne T. Wilbur, published in May 1852 in Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature, marked the first time a work by Jules Verne was translated into the English language.Just as the narrator starts the ascent of his balloon, a stranger jumps into its car. The unexpected passenger's only intent is to take the balloon as high as it will go, even at the cost of his and pilot's life. The intruder takes advantage of the long journey to recount the history of incidents related to the epic of lighter-than-air travel.This short story foreshadows Verne's first novel, Five Weeks in a Balloon.Jules Gabriel Verne (/vɜːrn/; French: [ʒyl gabʁijɛl vɛʁn]; 8 February 1828 - 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872).Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His reputation was markedly different in anglophone regions where he had often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children's books, largely because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels have often been printed. Since the 1980s, his literary reputation has improved.Verne has been the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, ranking between Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare. As of 2018, he is still the 2nd most translated author. He has sometimes been called the "Father of Science Fiction", a title that has also been given to H. G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback.Verne was born on 8 February 1828, on Île Feydeau, a small artificial island on the Loire River within the town of Nantes, in No. 4 Rue Olivier-de-Clisson, the house of his maternal grandmother Dame Sophie Marie Adélaïde Julienne Allotte de La Fuÿe (née Guillochet de La Perrière). His parents were Pierre Verne, an attorney originally from Provins, and Sophie Allotte de La Fuÿe, a Nantes woman from a local family of navigators and shipowners, of distant Scottish descent. In 1829, the Verne family moved some hundred metres away to No. 2 Quai Jean-Bart, where Verne's brother Paul was born the same year. Three sisters, Anne "Anna" (1836), Mathilde (1839), and Marie (1842) would follow.In 1834, at the age of six, Verne was sent to boarding school at 5 Place du Bouffay in Nantes. The teacher, Madame Sambin, was the widow of a naval captain who had disappeared some 30 years before. Madame Sambin often told the students that her husband was a shipwrecked castaway and that he would eventually return like Robinson Crusoe from his desert island paradise. The theme of the robinsonade would stay with Verne throughout his life and appear in many of his novels, including The Mysterious Island (1874), Second Fatherland (1900), and The School for Robinsons (1882).In 1836, Verne went on to École Saint-Stanislas, a Catholic school suiting the pious religious tastes of his father.
Download or read book Five Weeks in a Balloon A voyage of exploration and discovery in Central Africa From the French With illustrations by Riou written by Jules Verne and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Falling Upwards written by Richard Holmes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)** **Time Magazine 10 Top Nonfiction Books of 2013** **The New Republic Best Books of 2013** In this heart-lifting chronicle, Richard Holmes, author of the best-selling The Age of Wonder, follows the pioneer generation of balloon aeronauts, the daring and enigmatic men and women who risked their lives to take to the air (or fall into the sky). Why they did it, what their contemporaries thought of them, and how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet is a compelling adventure that only Holmes could tell. His accounts of the early Anglo-French balloon rivalries, the crazy firework flights of the beautiful Sophie Blanchard, the long-distance voyages of the American entrepreneur John Wise and French photographer Felix Nadar are dramatic and exhilarating. Holmes documents as well the balloons used to observe the horrors of modern battle during the Civil War (including a flight taken by George Armstrong Custer); the legendary tale of at least sixty-seven manned balloons that escaped from Paris (the first successful civilian airlift in history) during the Prussian siege of 1870-71; the high-altitude exploits of James Glaisher (who rose) seven miles above the earth without oxygen, helping to establish the new science of meteorology); and how Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, and Jules Verne felt the imaginative impact of flight and allowed it to soar in their work. A seamless fusion of history, art, science, biography, and the metaphysics of flights, Falling Upwards explores the interplay between technology and imagination. And through the strange allure of these great balloonists, it offers a masterly portrait of human endeavor, recklessness, and vision. (With 24 pages of color illustrations, and black-and-white illustrations throughout.)
Download or read book The Journey on the Balloon written by Irina Escoffery and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story is about a little boy who wanted to see lands where the summer never ends. He made a long journey on the balloon. The story is illustrated with the author's photos. The book is dedicated to Irina Escoffery little friend and his wonderful family.
Download or read book Five Weeks in a Balloon written by Jules Verne and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sebastian and the Balloon written by Philip C. Stead and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the Caldecott Medal-winning "A Sick Day for Amos McGee" comes a whimsical story about a hot air balloon, a boy, and a magical adventure. Full color.
Download or read book Dealing with Dragons written by Patricia C. Wrede and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first two volumes of Patricia C. Wrede's beloved, bestselling Enchanted Forest Chronicles!
Download or read book The Amazing Air Balloon written by Jean Van Leeuwen and published by Dial. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this story based on true events, a thirteen-year-old apprentice takes the first manned hot air balloon flight in America and gains new insight into life's possibilities.
